They aint what th sea to By Greg Mclnfyre Citizen Staff Reporter The old grey mayor aln t what he used to be To say nothing of fellow council members and cham ber of commerce worthies Mayor Harold Moffat gave age and the greater possibil possibility ¬ ity of injuries because of it as the rmin reasons today for rejecting a challenge from Kamloops for this years Yel Yellow ¬ low head Tug of War Im oncerned that this is is a pretty strenuous event and we havent tim to get in shape said Mayor Moffat The miyor discounted the fact the Prince George has a woman on council and that Prince George members may be smaller or older than Kam Kamloops ¬ loops council That s got nothing to do with it he declared Last year Kamloops coun council ¬ cil outpulled Prince Georges aldermanic team to beer me Yellowhead tug ofwarwinners at Tete Jaunc Cache the junc junction ¬ tion of the highway between the two interior cities Were the wrong type of people for that game said Mayor Moffat Kamloops Mayor Peter Wing today recalled with a chuckle that his interior city won the event last year Mayor Wing said Kamloops city council Tuesday author led him to write to Prince Georges Mayor Moffat seek seeking ¬ ing terms of reference for this years tug to publicise the Yellowhead loute Mayor Wing said if Prince George city council isnt up to the strain then maybe Major Moffat would suggest other commjmty groups such as the Jaycees or the Kinsmen who would keep the a One Prince George executive w is shaking his head sadly today He tried to find out when daylight saving Urn started by phoning the provincial building Hes shaking his head because he received foui different an swers Oui guess subject topi o vinclal government confirmation i that its 2 jm Sunday a The funny looking B C Fes w tivul of Sports silverdollars in circulation as legal tender in Prince George stores are legal They will be accepted by merchants for normal purposes and serve the extra function of publicizing the festival of sports May 15 to June 7 a The city engineering depart w ment w ill be asked to inves investigate ¬ tigate a complaint by Des Parker 100 Douglas that the citys water Intake pump at the base of the annual tug of war going I can appreciate Mayor Moffats feelings but I think hes being narrow minded to turn it down flat said the Kamloops mayor Mayor Wing said he hopes Mayor Moffat will suggest a way to keep the event going in reply to the letter from Kamloops to be written this week No date has been set for the 1971 tug of war Mayor Wing said I think its very important we do carry this on Its very im important ¬ portant to keep the area on the map About 700 ralnsoaked spec spectators ¬ tators turned out June 27 to see Kamloops muscle menwin the best two out of three pulls at Tete Jaune Cache last sum summer ¬ mer Moffat today recalled that one of the participants Prince George member Ed Good was almost injured Good was forced out of the tug by severe netk pains giving Kamloops a nine-to-eight man advantage The other members of the Prince George team last year were Aid Elroy Garden Har Harry ¬ ry Loder Alf Nunweiler and chamber of commerce members Alec MacGregor Ludwig Weilmeier Ken Bish Bishop ¬ op John Rahier and Rod McLeod Coach Moffat and assistant Aid Lome McCuish were dressed up logger fashion while trainer Aid CarrieJane Gray resembled an Indian princess in her patch covered smock The event drew news media representatives from a wide area including Edmonton Calgary Seattle Vancouver Kamloops and Prince George Box cars adequate Lumber cars still scarce By Moira Maclennan Citizen Staff Reporter There is a g o o d supply of box cars in the Prince George aiea but othei types of fieight cars aie scarce Cariboo gets new flights Regularly scheduled air flights between Prince George and Kel owna with stops at Quesnel Wil Williams ¬ liams Lake 108 Mile House and Kamoops will be inaugurated next month by Thunderbird Ail -lines Ltd Operating under charter to Pacific Western Ail lines Thun derbiid will provide service to the Central Interior in addition to the seivice already supplied bj PW Stalling May 3 Tnunderbiid aircraft will leave Prince George Mondajs Wednesdays and Thursdays to those points and on Fridays a return service will be piovided between Prince George and Quesnel The Prince George Quesnel run will augment PWAs sche scheduled ¬ duled flights between ancouver and Quesnel It is understood Thundeibird w ill employ an eight passenger twin tuibo piop 402 Cessna for the flights Elderly men die in fire UCTORLV CP - Edwin Kaje 09 seriously burned while tijing to rescue an elderly boarder in a house fire here Sunday died in hospital Tues Tuesday ¬ day The boarder Ernest Green Greenwood ¬ wood 80 was found by firemen under his bed He was pic nounced dead on aiilval at hospital The local lumber industry ap appears ¬ pears to be recovering from dif difficulties ¬ ficulties caused by a recent shortage of freight cars Severe weather delayed their arrival from Eastern Canada and the sit situation ¬ uation deterioiated when engine mn employed by CP Rail and CNR booked off work in a con tract dispute at the beginning of this month The box car situation for lo local ¬ cal lumber is very good said Ian MacRae CNRs manager in Prince George How soon lumber operations return to normal depends on their ability to load he said There are sufficient cars on hand and coming to take careol stockpiling and production However ceitain shippers use fork lift loading and require equipment other than boxcars which do not have wide enough doors Double door cars and bulk headed flats are still in short supply he said The are ar arriving ¬ riving in dribs and drabs General manager John Guth Guthrie ¬ rie said the Northwood opera operation ¬ tion had a satisfactory supply of cars Dill Hutton president of the Northern Interior Lumbermens Vssociation said the situation was somewhat better but the shoitage of flat cats was still curtailing opeiations at the Rus tadBios planei second shift put bick on a week ago was laid off last night because too much lumber was being stockpiled The men might be bi ought back this week depending on theai rival of suitable cars Hutton said he did not have In Carney St hill makes excessive noise Mmuul banding operation at the bird sanctuai y near Van derhoof Is behind schedule this year because of the annum of Ice still on the river However the Wildlife Club of Vanderhoof will hold a meeting Friday 8 pm j In the Vanderhoof High School to answer charges that they are dis 1 turbing the birds unnecessarily by their activities a Two Prince George swim- mers have been nominated to participate in trials for the B C Alberta dual swim meet May 1 Janice Blockj and Jim Fowlie of the Barracuda Swim Club were nominated for the trials at the Percy Norman pool in Van Vancouver ¬ couver The meet is set for Cal Calgary ¬ gary Austrian embassy in Bern deal Move to cheaper drugs e Citizen IBTrnir-r-irniifrTn-i Vol 15 No 77 24PagesA r mmmmdi lA r LJ X1 i vv 4 HP JKinilHBHillMKAT JV iJHJ f ilk -Wmm Ever wake up in the morning with your head feeling like a balloon7 Let this picture be a dreadful warning For the real story behind this picture turn to page 13 -Photo by Rick Hull Sauna operator asks asylum Explosives surround i i i woman Kid ZURICH Reuter A Swiss sauna bath owner holding an Austrian woman diplomat hos tage in his sandbagged explo she laden apaitment In this Swiss city demanded today that he and his second wife and their two children be granted asjlum in Trance Fernand Mueller 48 told a repot tei ft om the Swiss domes tic news agencj that this was the condition foi the lelease of Luise Kneissl detained at his flat for 30 hours The agency said that in spell ing out the demand Muellei made no mention of a ransom of 12 million which he de formation on how MLA members manded Tuesday a geneial were farint He maJe that demand in leU tei s to ponce and tne press ana nap vBGfim also said he wanted a plane to take him and his family to Spain He sold the Swiss authoiitles had si oiled his jouth and he had been corrupted in prison He said he wanted the monej foi his second wifes two chil dren who had been placed In a childrens home bj an official order he said Muellei told the r e p o r t e r today that If he could not be reunited with his family he would commit suicide He said he had known Miss Kneissl for jears and knew she had exceptional human quail tites Miss Kneissl Is head of the Austrian social service bureau in Zurich a bianch of the ing with the social problems of Austrlans living in Switzerland Mueller claims to have a loaded rifle 66 pounds of explo slves and 100 gallons of gasoline in his apartment Miss Kneissl confirmed in a telephone con versation that there were explo slves in the room Mueller said that a hlgh i ank ing Trench diplomat and Jurg Zbinden a Swiss news agency rej orter he has been negotiating with should accompany his wife and children aged four and eight to Trance He slid the two men should then return to fetch him at his Zurich apartment and accom pany him to Join his family He said his wife should be given an unspecified sum of money for the Journey OTTAWA AP - Temporar ily pushing the dominating lead ership issue from their minds more than 1 800 New Demo cratic Party members from across Canada today began re examining paity policy and em embroiling ¬ broiling themselves in compli cated procedural arguments Even before tackling such controversial subjects as public ownership and national unity the convention became bogged down for nearly an hour over agricultural issues which fea tured the first apparent confron tation between the nationalistic Waffle Group and the so called moderates After an hour the agricultural resolutions remained on the agenda to be brought up again Thursday The partys biennial conven tion held in Ottawas Civic Centre near the old Coliseum where the party was born 10 years ago opened without fan fare and with obvious preoccu pation with the five candidate leadership campaign for a sue cessor to retiring leader T C Douglas The first decision taken by the convention was to support a mo tion by Al Campbell of London Ont to have a mass demon stratiun on Parliament Hill Thursday to protest unemploj ment and plant closings Mr Campbell who said he will soon be laid off by Eator Automothe Corp tailed on the convention to form the biggest demonstration against unem ployment and factory closings ever seen in Canada There was little contioversy when the convention approved a motion on fisheries but the con v e n 1 1 o n quickly came alive when the bulk agriculture reso lutlon hit the floor The resolu tion a composite of 17 resolu tions offered by local associa tlons was strongly opposed by the Waffle Group Amid a series of controversial procedural arguments Al Marchbank of Truro N S failed to hive the resolution re placed by one supported by the afflo group The affle favored resolution sponsored by the Saskatchewan 10c Copy Freights collide QUESNEL WINDOWS SHAKEN BY QUAKE QUESNEL B C CP - Dozens of residents of British Columbia s Cariboo district reported feeling an earthquake shock early today One man told of walking down a main street at 12 50 am PST when all the store windows in the vicinity began to rattle Quesnel airport confirmed that a barograph instrument registered a sharp change at that time indicating a tremor Prince George s weather office reported no indication of an earthquake this morning Officer in charge of the weather office Earl Zilkie said pres sure readings sometimes indicate an earthquake and our instruments here felt nothing Slow start WaffSe faS9s NOP meeting New Democratic Party outh would among other things place the food wholesale and re tail industries under public own ership In the ensuring hassle the main resolution was approved bringing on a series of boos and hisses from many delegates There were several challenges made against rulings by Chair man Eamon Park The procedural aspect might have been correct complained Alf Cleave MP for Saskatoon Biggar But I am saying you did not adequately discuss agri culture at this convention Mike Kournossoff GG of Chil liwack B C stood at a micro phone through most of the lengthy arguments waiting for his opportunity to talk about ag riculture problems Before he could speak the agriculture res olutions had passed I came here all the way fiom the Fraser alley he shouted and you took away my right I am just an ordinary farmer and I dont understand all this Then there was anothei rever sal and It was agreed to bypass the votes alieadj taken and le open the entlie agriculture de bate again Thursday Latei today the convention was to hear a ieport from retir ing leader T C Douglas whose successor will be selected Satur day UK to return robbery suspect VANCOUVER CP Johannes Van Leeuwen a 2G-year-old Dutch seaman who disappeared during his trial on four bank robbery charges will be return ed here from London England where he was arrested last month The Canadian govern ment was granted extradition Tuesday Leeuw en charged with robbing four Vancouver banks nf 23784 in June 1970 disappear ed last fall while free on 20000 bail Doctors say prescriptions obsoiete Southam News Services OTTAWA A major group of family doctors across Canada have agreed that present meth ods of disjenslng presci lptlons are obsolete thus crumbling an other barrier on the load to cheaper drugs A survey covering almost 1500 family doctors showed strong suiport for full labelling on present tions and majority support for pre pickaged quan quantities ¬ tities of commonly used drugs Results of the survey weie an nounced Wednesday in Toronto by R Donald Rice executive director of the College of Fam Ily Physicians of Canada The favorable resionse from the family doctors who account for much of the heavy prescrib Ing seems todestioy opjosltlon to the new dispensing tech nlques founded on alleged re slstance by the medical piofes slon Nobody ever went to the doc doctors ¬ tors themselves before and asked them what they wanted said one official The college received question nalre replies from 60 per cent of its 2660 Engllshsi eaklng physl clans About one In three ofi k Canadas general practitioners belong to the college Nine out of 10 of these physl clans agreed that patients should know pieclsely what drug they are taking thiough complete labelling of a drug gists vials or bottles The doctors overwhelmingly agreed such Information could be life saving In poisoning or suicide situations and valuable for patients who changed doc tors moved or suffeied from diug allergies Only 54 per cent of the reply ing doctois agreed that many drugs should be dlsjensed In original packages as oial con traceptlves now are rather than being repackaged by druggists But only one thlrd of the doctors actively opposed the lda In addition to being more san i t a r y the pre packaging of drugs would be a major boon to lowering prices by allowing comparison shopping If druggists sold prescription drugs In a package received di rectlv fiom the manufacturer then federal drug laws could re quire each pharmaceutical manufacturer to print his net selling price on the package WJth the net selling price on the package each consumer could calculate the druggists prescribing fee and markup If any by simple subtraction Opposition to original package dispensing has focused on possl ble Increases In over all dtug costs because of unused pills By a narrow mat gin the family doctors reject this argument Results of the survey have al ready been forw at ded to pi ovln clal and federal health minis ters and other medical bodies said a college spokssman A special seminar of all Involved parties is being urged by the family physicians Sir Sstof PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA BOWDEN Vita CP - A tank cai of liquid butane still was burning today after two freight ti alns collided held on Tuesday niglt killing two ti aln men who had jumped fiom the engine seconds before the im impact ¬ pact Police said the collision about 05 miles north of Calgary starttd fires in one of the en engines ¬ gines the tank car two bo cais carrying Kegs of beer one carry Ing lumber an empty flat car and one loaded with ftrti Uzei The victims identified as en gineman A E Lewis 48 and flieman Colin Gradley 42 both of Calgary jumped clear of their northbound train just be before ¬ fore the collision but weie burned to death in a sheet of flame that extended 500 feet fiom the tank cir of butane The freight train collision started a fire in the first engine unit of the northbound train which was tilted into the air by the second engine unit Just behind the engines was a box cai catrying beer kegs which punctuated the crash scene with persistent though relatively harmless explosions as the shaken up beer blew out of its contalnei s Firemen and rescue workers concentrated on the burning tank car carrying G000 barrels of butane A Canadian Pacific Railway spokesman said today normal rail service would resume Thursday A southbound day 11 ner between Edmonton and Cal Calgary ¬ gary had not reached Red Deer at the time of the crash Pas sengers were being bussed be between ¬ tween Red Deer and Calgary Traffic rerouted Traffic on Highway 2 resumec after RCMP had diverted car to country roads Tuesday night People evacuated fron nearby homes after the crasl returned when it was learned i tank car was ca rying phos phate fertilizei not ammoruurr plosphate which would have been poisonous if it had ignited Four persons w ere slightly in injured ¬ jured in the crash and released from hospital There were five crew members on each train The collision was th second incident in fewer than four hours on the same line Earlier a dayliner carrying passengers to Calgary from Ed monton collided with a car at a level crossing near Lacombe 45 miles noith of here The dri er of the car not yet identified was reported In seri serious ¬ ous condition in hospital Pso one was reported Injured on the dayliner Police said the freight train crash occurred after the north northbound ¬ bound train hauling 50 cars missed a scheduled stop at Bow den a lialf milt south from the accident scene It had been scheduled to stop to let the 52 car southbound train pass Inside today A Business 5 Classified 20 21 22 23 Comics 11 Crosswoid 11 Editorial 4 Homn and family 8 Horo Horoscope scope 11 Second Front 13 Sports 14 15 Television 11 j y q Mi I uant jU soldier out b u hens the election date again Weather A Sunny today clouding over Thursday afternoon Winds becoming bilsk south southerly ¬ erly Thursday High today and Thursday 57 low tonight near 32