III killed by aufos WASHINGTON - One day In 1899 a man stepping off a streetcar in New York City was hit and killed by a horseless carriage The slaughter was under way In 1951 the millionth US auto death was recorded Today me total approaches the 2 mil lion mark gaining on the mile stone at the rate of one death every 10 minutes But the trend at last Is turn ing downward Last year for the first time In -5 years the number of deaths and Injuries and the total eco nomlc losses suffered In traffic accidents in the U S dropped The Insurance Information In stltute which keeps statistics on these things for the nations In surance Industry confessed It self to be surprised at the fig ures The organization antlclratlng an outcry for lower auto lnsur ance rates Is quick to point out that it Is much too soon to con elude that the heartening drop in accident losses constitutes a firm trend Nevertheless the Institute re ports Traffic deaths last year to talled 53300 down two per cent from 1969 Traffic injuries totalled 4983328 down onehalf of one per cent from 1969 Economic losses from traffic accidents lost wages medical expenses property damage last year totalled 166 billion down 23 per cent from 1969 And the National Safety Coun cil calculates the highway death rate last year five deaths per 100 million miles driven was the lowest in the nations his tory Transportation Secretary John Volpe calls the lower fig ures the first dividend from the new auto safety standards which went into effect with 1968 model cars The 1970 traffic death toll was 1100 lower than that of the pre vious year The secretary said he felt the decline in traffic fatalities was an indication that the corner has been turned In our safety drive and that we are on our way to ridding the nation of a great part of the tragic highway death toll Volpe concedes there is some disagreement among experts on which auto safety standards had contributed most to the decline In deaths and Injuries But the use of seat belts en ergy absorbing steering systems and betterdesigned highways all have been credited with playing a major role The Insurance Institute and the National Safety Council also attribute part of the improved accident statistics to better law enforcement techniques and years of safety campaigns All these things taken to gether seem to be finally taking effect said an insurance Instl tute official Still the statistics remain rather staggering Despite the lowered fatality and injury rate the number of accidents lose last year to 22 million The next significant develop ment in safety devices will be Installation of air bags or other passlve restraint sys terns for the front seats of 1974 model cars Responding to Industry peti tlons for reconsideration of standards issued last fall the government has given ground in several areas reflecting an ef foit to avoid forcing automakers to engage In major redesign of Important carstructural compo nents In the next few years at substantial cost The groundgivlng by the transportation departments Na tional Highway Safety Ad minis tration included confining the 1974model requirement to pro tectlon from death or Injury In head on collisions at 30 miles per hour Originally this protec tion would have also extended to side collisions The agency postponed the sidecolllsion deadline twe yeirs to 1976 models It also put off one year from 1975 mod els to 1976 a requirement for protection against roll overs and fi ontal collisions at angles other than headon Rollovercollislon protection for Instance will necessitate im prove ments such as stronger roofs and dooi latches and bet ter side windows Sidecolllsion protection will probably mean designing wider cars to provide enough space to cushion occu pants from the Impact The safety agency also post poned until the 1976 model year extension of the alrbag re qulrement to rearseat passen gers Last November It had set 1975 models as the targets for that deadline However as an offset to the concessions made oy tne gov ernment auto ma ers will have to include In 1974 models an Im proved seat belt feature This vlll Involve a warning buzzer and flashing light that goes on when someone sitting In the right front seat position of ten known as the death seat doesnt buckle his seat belt the buzzing and flashing will continue as long as the ignition is turned on and the car is in gear ttBii2rf mill i in i MkH 1 - mvflH fa lair iLwjjjBj Wfi jIkL Pt IK PUB mV m MHHMt m WilL i ti mL Uftft V M PHHB WW M m- jtiHHHMr vwrm Bvi IHIHH Wuf r WBSLvttaMrM Jar mm wmwy im mM mA mijjLM j jfc mmBmsr in RAVsfA i mBBVS m WM JP KJfflimi jmxrp IMA t mfJm fefiS -V tMMrW - ffMm wmi im - - ww - h vJWfr tLttp fWVlfim t Tiff if i mmmsMmmmmm i mmmmhi irwsiiiss jaimfimF uwz iHiKvavjffS vmmmmmmmm w ywfflpmwn mgssmmm mhmwmwi rtfPH ysmntm mMm mmmf- - jm mmMsmm mmMm i h91V m mBmWm mM mmmwm 4CiSMiiifMMi smMknMlMii rsfMilliilMHHiMatt Mrs Pierre Elliott Trudeau poses in this photo by Vancouver photographer Fred Schiffer in the full length wedding gown designed by West Vancouver designer Peter Plunkett Norris She wed Prime Minister Trudeau last week MEDI NA TO FACE MY LAI CHARGES FORT MCPHERSON Ga AP - Captain Ernest Medina 34 commander of the company which waged the My Lai assault in 1968 has been ordered to stand trial on charges of murdering 102 South Vietnamese civilians I am innocent of the charges against me he says A platoon leader during the attack was Lieut William Calley who is on trial at Fort Benton Ga and also is accused of slaying 102 Vietnamese civil lans Calley has testified that he killed on Medina s orders Medina denies it uRntPd expprienced front end alianmpnt min umlirR service ltd -2nd dominion ECONOMY PLUS 1969 VIVA Like New 2800 miles 4 speed block heater paint stripes wheel discs w w tires See this tine automobile in our show- room now Selling Prict 1595 SCHULTZ P0NTIAG BUIGK LTD H 1 1 Central 563 0271 Viets await Laos attack SAIGON CP - South Viet Vietnamese ¬ namese troops waited tensely today at the Ho Chi Minn trail crossroads town of Sepone in Laos for the North Vietnamese counter attack they feel is al almost ¬ most certain to come Warm reception The Citizen that membership in the Pulp and Paper Workers of Canada is not a requirement for employment He was released Monday after 17 years at the MacMillan Bloe del pulp mill at Harmac near Nanalmo because he refused to join the PPWC He is a former local president of the Interna International ¬ tional Union of Pulp Sulphite and Papermill workers replaced as bargaining agent at Harmac in 1967 by the PPWC No help NEW ORLEANS AP Vice President Spiro T Agnew says that as things now stand Rich man strapped for cash NEW YOK AP - Multi millionaire Huntington Hartford Is selling off most of his art collection He claims he needs the money I have the samp pioblem a lot of wealthy people do he said a cash problem Weve all been hit by the re cession We could all use a little extra cash these days Hartford heir to the A and P supermarket fortune dislikes most abstract pop and other modern art forms In 1964 he had built the white mirble Gal Gallery ¬ lery of Modern Art at Columbus Circle in New ork to display his choice ofpictures He has since transferred the m iseum to New Jerseys Tair leigh Dickinson University and it is his no longer displayed collection from there which the Parke Bernet Galleries will start selling Wednesdaj I dont know how nuch they will bring he said but Ive generally done pretty well with art from a business point ILliLLilliiiJ mmrnm gH J J I I J I I I H ijmffiWBgtTOB 3 a fi 525 GEORGE STREET Weekdays 9am -9pm Saturdays 9am PHONE 563 4029 NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY I Lalng and his wife together with parliamentary assistant Barnett Danson and Mary Mac donald of the prime ministers office met them In front of the WRLD NEWS The world in brief company sued hy worker VANCOUVER CP - A Na- naimo man who was fired from his job after 17 years because he refused to join a union started B C Supreme Court action Mon Monday ¬ day against his employer and the union Kaston H Warde seeks an in injunction ¬ junction restraining MacMillan Bloedel Industries Ltd from firing him and a declaration the Nixon administration will not approve of a South Vietnam Vietnamese ¬ ese Invasion of North Vietnam We miy not be willing to offer the kind of support we are giving the South Vietnamse in Laos and Cambodia on any In Incursion ¬ cursion Into North Vietnam he told a news conference Monday And the reason I say miy not is that I cannot really look Into the future and foresee the conditions under which a mili military ¬ tary operation might take place Tanker struck LONDON AP Flames touched off by a mjstery explo sion ravaged the 113 370 ton British tanker Ocean Bridge off the west coast of Spain today The big ship crippled by a blast in her pump room as she stood by to aid another stricken tanker settled by the stern Asks question OTTAWA CP - The govern government ¬ ment was asked Monday why it advertises for immigrants when Canadian unemployment is above the 600000 mark TC Douglas New Democrat leader urged Immigration Min Minister ¬ ister Otto Lang to have his de partment give the facts as well as the propaganda in advertising abroad Mr Douglas referred to re ports that immigrants are find finding ¬ ing themselves jobless and on welfare despite glowing accounts abroad of the opportunities here Funeral held KAMLOOIS BC CP ru neral services will be held in Kamloops Wednesday for Robert Henry Carson a former speaker ot the British Columbia legisla ture who died Sunday at age 85 Born at Pavilion Mountain Ranch near Lillooet B C Mr Carson a Liberal represented Kamloops from 1930 to 1949 111 health prevented him from seek ing re election J I our labe THE CITIZEN Tuesday March 9 1971 3 Trudeau fakes home bride OTTAWA - When Prime Minister Trudeau stepped Into the airport terminal here Mon day night somebody shouted Good for you Pierre At that about 400 people who had braved a swirling snow snowstorm ¬ storm and 10 degree temtera ture to jam the Ottawa airport broke Into cheers and crushed forward A middle aged woman broke through kissed Margaret then him and said Congratulations to both of you Others rushed in and shook his hand She In a pink wool tapestry mdi coat clung to his left arm and smiled Thus Pierre Elliott Trudeau brought his bride to Ottawa Mr Trudeau and his wife until a few days ago 22-year-old Margaret Sinclair had left Van couver at 403 p m EST after three days of skiing on Whistler Mountain near Vancouver With a 25 minute refueling stop at Winnipeg they reached Ottawa just after 9 pm EST Trudeau hatless and in his white raincoat was first from the yellow and grey departmont of transport Jetstar She fol followed ¬ lowed behind with Mr and Mrs Charles Trudeau his brother and sister-in-law and aide Gordon Gibson Acting Prime Minister Arthur terminal Amid a crush of mi microphones ¬ crophones and in the glare of TV lights they exchanged pleasantries Theres been more snow said Lalng Even the o p p o s 1 1 1 o n is happy said Danson A black Cadillac limousine stood waiting on the tarmac but Trudeau decided he would go through the terminal At first there was almost an embarrassed silence Trudeau waved said hello shook a few hards and spoke to some young boys with woollen hats pulled down over their ears Then came the shout the crush of the crowd and the woman with the kisses Mr and Mrs Trudeau with aide Vic Chapmin clearing the way moved slowly through the terminal building talking and shaking hands as they went It was nearly five minutes be before ¬ fore they reached the terminal front door where another black Cadillac limousine waited A Thought for Today At a remedy again all Mil poverty ticknest melancholy only one thing is necenary That it work working hard -Charles Baudelaire Presented as a Public Service Every Day by Schultz Pontiac Buick Ltd Your New G M Dealer at 1 1 1 1 Central Street Phone 563 0271 See the New 1971 Firenza NOW Reserve ahead Take the wait off your feet phone tells it like it IS They stopped again said a few more words that were lost In the crush and then ducked Into the back of the car It disappeared quickly Into the swirling Ottawa snow an unmarked police car on Its tall and as it disappeared the man who had broken the silence a few moments before did it again How was the skiing Pierre he shouted as the car headed for homp 24 Sussex Drive PHARMACY PHACTS from Fred Goudy Has it ever occured to you that we probably have a pretty good Idea of the frame of mind you can be In when you bring your Sr 4tk prescription to us You didnt want to be sick in the first place did you And j our doctor Hes pro probably ¬ bably restricted your activities hasnt he And he prescribed something for you that you didnt know you needed to treat something you certain certainly ¬ ly didnt ask to have So Why not go ahead and growl a little bit Aftei all we dont mind be because ¬ cause we really do understand always You can always depend on your downtown diug store with the early bird hours open at 8 30 AM being your friendliest place where service and quality meet here In Prince George And fill filling ¬ ing your prescriptions Is our main business here at Monarch Pharmacy across from the post office Adv -i md ill TMZDEWm In Prince George at 564 4847 Well have a new Cfievrolet or Pontiac all gassed up and ready when you get there If youre flying abroad well reserve for you with one of our world wide affiliates in the USA its National Car Rental BRITISH ffljl COLUMBIA CANADIAN WHISKV TmQuas4NTE6 TmS WHISY ro ee of N VI MT QUALITY THOROUGHLY MTU OM CASS OISTLLEDAQEDN oUed under the supehvi o He Canadian ooviNMe Jmi iv WESTMINSTEK o J J C 4 N 4 O A S i This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia