TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17 1970 Vol 14 No 222 20 Pages pact close By Bob Groves Citizen Staff Reporter Settlement of the Northern In Interior ¬ terior forest Industry contract dispute appeared closer this morning Joint negotiations between the disputants the Northern In Interior ¬ terior Lumbermens Association anJ Prince George Local 1 424 of the International Woodwork ers of America resumed at 10 am at the Inn of the North The resumption of talks fol followed ¬ lowed a series of developments since the weekend which have seen the IWA reach tentative agreement with three companies employing more than 1000 of tne locals 3000 members Announcement of the agree agreements ¬ ments spurred the NILA to re request ¬ quest the meeting today with the union Legal strike In another development today about 125 local members em employed ¬ ployed at Canlm Lake Sawmills ouslde 100 Mile House went on strike at 8 am Local 1 424 president Bot Pitman said the men are fed up and took the matter Into their own hands The strike is legal he said and has the approval of the locals bargaining committee Asked how long the walk out would last Pitman said theres no way well ask the crew to go back until weve reached a set settlement ¬ tlement Meanwhile the MA is not disclosing terms of tentative agreement announced Monday until crews have voted on them The union says however the proposed agreement includes the largest wage package inanylWA settlement in the province this year The unions negotiating committee recommends mem membership ¬ bership acceptance The tentative agreements have been reached with the Northwood Pulp sawmill and woods division including three sawmills and a logging operation east of Prince George Canadian Forest Pro Products ¬ ducts Ltd operations at Chet wynd Takla Fort St James and its Lloyd Brothers sawmill at Isle Pierre and Tubafour Stud Mills of Quesnel An initial breakthrough came when Canadian Forest Products a member of the Northern In terior Lumbermens Association privately resumed negotiations with the IWA on Saturday Inside today a Business 5 Classified v 16 17 18 19 Comics 15 Crosswoid 15 Editorial 4 Hom and family 6 7 Horoscope 15 Second front 11 Sports 12 13 Television 15 rts K 7ou co we know its not for a Un Uncontrolled ¬ controlled publishing house Weather A Today mainly cloudy A few snow flurries after midnight Lows tonight 25 to 30 a Regional District dliector George Sargent of Dunster sent 50 lambs to market In Ed Edmonton ¬ monton recently and sheared the wool off every sheep rancher In Alberta and Eastern BC Sar gents lambs were acknowledged as the top grade market lambs In the recent North Central Sheep Sales its only the third year in a row for him a With rumors circulating w concerning the cloudy future of South Fort George as a village perhaps the village council should remove the Northern Hardware calendar adorning the wall of the fire hall village office It could be interpreted as city infiltration Into village affairs United Appeal canvassers w are still making call callbacks ¬ backs to any homes or busin businesses ¬ esses not reached during the offi official ¬ cial weeks of the campaign If you have not been contacted yet for a donation call United Appeal at 564 4000 Your contribution assists 18 health and welfare agencies in Prince George g A special free film presen- tatlon comes on the screen tonight at the Cottonwood Island School People and Power a review of self help techniques by famed community organizer Saul Allnsky begins at 730 pm The NFD film Best Damn Fiddler follows back-to-back j Prince George district w teachers voted 89 per cent In favor of strike action to back BC Teachers Federation de demands ¬ mands for better pensions Re Results ¬ sults released today by the Van Vancouver ¬ couver BCTF office Indicated yes for strike 88 per cent of teachers in the province and 86 per cent of teachers in the six districts In north central BC I The Citizen HHIM tL h w iBk tdSr lmA wti LH xttmif jru3 staKo WB- tr - mr9 S amPWm Km JMiiiiii City RCMP Constable John Bowers sights along the beam of the Prince George detachments new 1500 radar set City council authorized purchase of the new set recently Lunokhod I MOSCOW CP - Soviet sci scientists ¬ entists soft landeda robot spaceship on the moon today and then sent an eight wheel ve vehicle ¬ hicle trundling over the lunar surface in a series of earth-controlled experiments Lunokhod I the first vehicle on the moon rolled down a spe special ¬ cial gangway from Its mother ship early today two hours 41 minutes after Luna 17 slid down to a soft landing in the moons Sea of Rains at G47 am 1047 pm EST Monday the official Soviet news agency Tass re reported ¬ ported Lunokhod the name means moon vehicle Is carrying sclefr MANPURA Bay of Bengal AP Human bodies and the carcasses of cattle are rotting together on a beach of this stricken Island in the heart of the East Pakistan cyclone disaster area Survivors begged for water and food as the first visitors from the outside arrived here since a tidal wave washed at least 10000 of the Islands 26000 population to theit deaths Survivors In damp skirtlike wraparounds c 1 u t c h e d the hands of visitors and In one Instance bent to kiss their feet They wanted food that was not spoiled and and water not drawn from pools polluted with the bodies of men and animals They turned down offers of 500 rupee notes more money than an East Pakistani farmer sees In a year What can we buy with money said Chaudhury Ka maluddln 36 one surviving member of the Manpura dls trict council He was one of the richest men on this island of about 40 square miles between the larger Bay of Bengal islands of flatla and Bhola where Fridays storm swept away a after they were told the old one was worn out from ten years of constant use Police say the new model will also be given constant use Citizen photo by Dave Milne Russians land lunar vehicle television cameras aboard the thing as dramatic as the Lunok- Russian ship has carried non- revolutionary vehicle for infor 1 hod experiment had been Soviet equipment mation on Its position and the planned for the Luna 17 moon nature of the surrounding lunar 1 mission scape Soviet science has entered an age of effective new means of moon exploration with the help of automatic machines Tass said as it gave word of the Rus Russian ¬ sian space spectacular Automation favored Tass also reported that both Lunokhod and the Luru space spaceship ¬ ship carried Soviet flags and pennants and bas reliefs of Lenin All systems aboard Lunokhod tific apparatus control eear were functioning normally Tass radio communications systems added The Russians had given and television observation no previous indication that any equipment to perform expert- ments monitored back on earth I Tass said Crawls 65 feet For the first time in the his history ¬ tory of astronautics an auto automatic ¬ matic moon vehicle controlled from earth was taken to the I i moon and began scientific in investigations ¬ vestigations Tass said The moon truck crawled 65 feet away from its landing point in initial experiments Tass added The Lunokhod is con controlled ¬ trolled from a special communi communications ¬ cations centre in the Soviet Union and scientists are using Observers said the achieve achievement ¬ ment underlines the Russian en enthusiasm ¬ thusiasm for space exploration by automated means and re reflects ¬ flects the technical lengths to which they are carrying their unmanned space probe pro program ¬ gram Tass also revealed that the moon vehicle is carrying a piece of foreign equipment a French built reflector for laser location experiments France and the Soviet Union have been co operating in space techniques for some time but this is believed the first time a still uncounted but estimated tens of thousands of islanders We are not beggars he said through parched lips We feel shy to ask for help but what can we do Were eating rotten rice which has fallen Into our ponds collecting It and drying it We are not cooking it in our pond water It gives a bad smell We burn rotten rice and eat It East Pakistani death count today reached 55000 with officials still estimat estimating ¬ ing a total of 300000 to 500000 fatalities as a re result ¬ sult of the cyclone and tidal wave which hit early Friday In the southern part of the Island there are people who have died because they have no food He and other Islanders said Journalists In a seaplane were the first outsiders to visit the Island No relief has come to this island typical of dozens of offshore Islands not yet reached by the slowly growing relief effort Soviet space scientists have made It clear they Intend to pursue lunar exploration by me c h a n I c a 1 means instead of trying a manned moon landing in the immediate future Work with machines Luna 17 was launched Nov 11 and went Into orbit around the moon Sunday following closely the pattern set by Its predeces predecessor ¬ sor Luna 16 Luna 16 scored two moon firsts for the Soviet Union both by scooping out lunar soil auto automatically ¬ matically and launching a cap capsule ¬ sule containing the precious moondust on Its way back to earth Cyclone victim Money wont buy food Kamaluddln said the tidal wave swept away at least 10000 people He said of the 5000 houses on the Island just four remain Intact Food Is rotting water is foul the only fire comes from a cigarette lighter as nobody has matches They burn dried straw and the remains of their ruined paddy crop About 80 per cent of the small children and about 100 per cent of the babies were washed away He said We need food medical relief vac clnatlon We have no food no cattle nothing Survivors said the tidal wave came at midnight Thursday night out of the southeast with a hollow roll ing roar and a cold luminous glow which Kamaluddln said reminded him of the flicker flickering ¬ ing light of an unfocused tele television ¬ vision tube He called It a ray He said It washed away most peo people ¬ ple and then washed back 90 per cent of them Many of those who were washed back lay dead on the beaches In grotesque atti attitudes ¬ tudes 10c Copy PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA BelliriQn nQQtd City endorse second TV City Council Monday night en endorsed ¬ dorsed the need for a second television station to serve the area but declined to support any specific companys application It took the action after hearing Bill Bellman president of Q Broadcasting the companywhlch operates CKPG television Prince George could acquire a second television channel much quicker If a proposal by Q Broad Broadcasting ¬ casting was permitted Bellman said In an appearance before city council Monday evening Bellman repeated a proposal made in a letter to Mayor Har Harold ¬ old Moffat that Q Broadcasting owners of the citys sole tele television ¬ vision outlet CKPG-TV-drop its CBC network affiliation and be become ¬ come a CTV affiliate here In this event Bellman sug suggested ¬ gested the Canadian Radio and Television Commission then ask the CBC to assume operation of its existing transmission and satellite facilities giving Prince George two channels Bellman answered questions from council for close to an hour before council passed a motion stating it endorsed an approach to the CRTC to provide alternate television service here by CTV The motion however did not recommend that any particular company provide CTV service as does an 8000 signature pe petition ¬ tition organized by realtor Gor Gordon ¬ don Bryant and sent to the CRTC The main reason Im here Is because a specific applicant was suggested in the petition said Bellman The suggested applicant Is BC Television Broadcasting of Vancouver Bellmans letter said any ap application ¬ plication by BCTV would be vig vigorously ¬ orously opposed by CKPG TV BCTV would drain off all or most of our advertising revenue from national sponsors and would bankrupt CKPG TVand re result ¬ sult in the shutting down of your only local television studios and local television news service Tills would leave the Prince George area with only one tele television ¬ vision station but the remaining station presumably a BCTV CTV operation would have its studios in Vancouver with no direct Involvement in Prince I George In reply to intensive question questioning ¬ ing by Aid Jack Helnrich Bell Bellman ¬ man said BCTV the CTV affil affiliate ¬ iate in Vancouver and the Okan agan does not have exclusive rights throughout BC BCTV holds only one vote of 12 on the CTVs Canadian board of directors he said and if Q Broadcasting received a favor favoring ¬ ing vote of the 12 it could be become ¬ come a CTV affiliate here Bellman said he has spoken with CTVs general manager Murray Chercover of Montreal and he Chercover sees no problem at all In Q Broad casting becoming a CTV affili affiliate ¬ ate Hearing set for murder A Prince George man will ap appear ¬ pear in city court Dec 9 for pre preliminary ¬ liminary hearing of a non capital murder charge George Babiuk 41 is charged with shooting his landlady Mrs Mary Rebus on Jan 19 1970 at her home in Prince George Council abhors magazine story Star Weekly magazine will be invited to take a better look at Prince George fol following ¬ lowing an article Aid Lome McCuish called an insultand an affront to our citizens The page long article In last weeks issue of the maga magazine ¬ zine focussed on the heavy drinking habits of Third Avenue beer parlor patrons The tone of the article was a smear on the city said Aid McCuish pointing out the im impression ¬ pression would be spread across the country as the magazine was a national pub publication ¬ lication I do think Star Weekly owes it to this city to have another look around said Aid Jack Helnrich I think wed better invite them back here1 Aid Carrie Jane Gray sug suggested ¬ gested council Ignore the article If it had been a nice flowery story it would have been forgotten right away At least this one will be remem remembered ¬ bered Aid Gray expected how however ¬ ever the story Is going to attract a bunch of char characters ¬ acters from all over thecoun try Discussion ended with council instructing city man manager ¬ ager Arran Thomson to send a letter to Star Weekly in To Toronto ¬ ronto expressing the citys abhorrence and Inviting Us staff back for another look Isolated girl 7 3 babys min ARCADIA CalU AP -Sheriffs deputies have arrested the parents of a ly ear old girl who doctors say cant talk and has the mind of an Infant be because ¬ cause she was kept in virtual isolation since birth Susan Wiley wide eyed and brown haired sppnt her time In side her parents modest two- bedroom home in this Los Ange les suburb except for brief pe riods when she played in the yard or sat on the porch depu ties said She walks with a stooped shuffle like an old person and her arms and bone structure are extremely thin doctors said They placed her mental devel opment as equal to that of a 12 to 18-months-old infant said she still wore diapers and that her size was that of a 10-year-old The doctors said Susan could become physically normal after treatment but that they were unsure about possible mental progress Deputies said Susan has been in hospital since Nov 4 The case was made public after her parents were arrested Monday Clark Wiley 70 and his es estranged ¬ tranged wife Irene 50 were booked for Investigation of child abuse and released on 1250 ball each No motive for the girls al leged treatment was advanced by authorities Sandbag project bothers builders The Prince George and Dis District ¬ trict Building Trades Council has rapped volunteer efforts employed in Operation Sand Sandbag ¬ bag on Cottonwood Island a week ago The trades council says it de deplores ¬ plores the fact volunteer labor was used in the project that saw 1900 feet of the Nechako River dike raised by about two feet Our council would like assur assurance ¬ ance from city council that this state of affairs will not be re repeated ¬ peated and that It is not the citys policy to encourage vol volunteer ¬ unteer work schemes of a stand standard ¬ ard construction nature saysa letter signed by trades council secretary treasurer Ken Thorn The letter was read at city council on Monday The trades council deplores the fact that a community within the city were impelled to resort to a volunteer work project of that magnitude Apart from 100 or so iople working there was a consider considerable ¬ able amount of heavy construc construction ¬ tion equipment used eg trucks bulldozers loaders and rollers etc An angry Aid Jack Heinrich said the trades council had no right to make such a submission and council had no need to re receive ¬ ceive the letter Aid Elroy Garden agreed the letter be received but felt It was no concern of the trades council if a community decided to embark on a self help project By a 4 3 vote council passed a motion by Aid Alf Nunweller that the city assure the trades council the city has not violated any labor agreement nor In Intends ¬ tends to Opposing the motion were Ald Aldermen ¬ ermen Helnrich Garden and Harry Loder Pierre Bock of 1699 Ingledew made a forced landing of his Piper PA 12 in a pasture seven miles south of Red Rock at 220 pm Monday The fabric on top of the aircraft began peeling back forcing the pilot to land Both Bock and his passenger were unin uninjured ¬ jured and are back at the pasture this morning repairing the fabric -Citizen photo by Rick Hull