iflSBwmO aesSlllls lOTSpW t iirW Kaa Nixon visit The Citizen Friday February 25 1972 voi io no 4u b rages a s i 12 a Don t get those bikinis out of w mothballs yet Spring lb not just around the corner because a flock of loblns have been sighted aiound town Natuialist Deiric Gerdes said today its likely the birds probably only a few in number have been here all winter They are not an ad advance ¬ vance pai ty scouting local con conditions ¬ ditions for cohoits in the warmer south lth ample food and some shelter the cold dce not neces necessarily ¬ sarily harm them he slid A A demonstration will beheld Saturday at 2 pm in fiont of the provincial building on Third to demand a public Inquiry into the death of Fred Quilt 55 who died in Williams Lake Nov 30 The Fred QuiltCommittee which claims Quilt died because of a beating by an RCMP officer has organized demonstrations In Vancouver Williams Lake Quesnel Prince Rupert and the China US try for friendship PEKING CP Premier At that time Chou remarked Chou En lai pledged tonight that that the gates to friendly con China will work unswervingly tact have finally opened Nixon for normal relations with the said the two peoples can rise United States At a dinner in his honor the Chinese leader was responding to a toast from President Nixon who said We have begun the long piocess of removing that wall between ut The toasts seemed moie low key than those raised at Chous banquet for the Nixons Monday Two aifed for robbery County court Judge RW Ken Kennedy ¬ nedy today sentenced Patrick Mc Connell 21 of Prince George to two years less a day definite and two years less a day in indeterminate ¬ determinate for two aimed rob bery convictions and one posses possession ¬ sion of stolen piopeity con conviction ¬ viction Judge Kennedy told him he felt this was a reasonable sentence because this is your one chance In your life to take charge of your dectiny McConnell was conUcted of the aimed lobbeiy of the Star time Drive in July 3 following a six day ti ialearliei this month McConnell then pleaded guil guilty ¬ ty to the Sept 22 hold up at Toodland Grocerv 2095 Tifth Moments later Judge Kennedy sentenced a co accused in both armed robbeiies Peiry Browne 21 to two years less a day and one yeir indeterminate in each robbery to run concurrently to the heights of greatness from which we can build a new world Nixon gae a nine course ban nuet for Chou and his Chinese associates in the Great Hall of the People where the premier had enteitalned the presidential party at a dlnnei ontheAmeii cans first day In China Nixon in his toast said it Is possible foi nations with differ ent systems and alues to live togethei In peace letting history lather than the battle field be the Judge of theii deci slons Chou seated at Nixons light at the banquet applauded fre quently as the piesldent spoke Nixon 1 1 k e w 1 s e clapped his hands as Chou spoke Then Chou and Nixon dianka toast as the band played Amer lea the Beautiful Nixon mingled w 1th the ciowd exchanging toasts with aiious Chinese officials In his intioductoiy lemarks Mxon pialsed the Chinese peo people ¬ ple Retailing his isit to the Gnat Wall of China Nixon called it one of the gieat won deis of the woild He said the wall showed the determination of China to maintain its lnde pendence thiough its long his toiy Chou lesponded to Mxons toast by expiesslng his thanks to the piesldent foi being host at the banquet Queen Charlottes as well as Prince George An Inquest into the death found Quilt died acci accidentally ¬ dentally A Thei ell be a lot of fi ozen ski racers out on the slopes this weekend The weather office figures temperatures all week weekend ¬ end will hover around the zeio nurk zipping up to highs of five above with lowsnearerto 15 below zero And winds will add to the misery The five day fore forecast ¬ cast which is ery unreliable because it Is determlntd by an American computer and based on probabilities calls for the cold to continue into next week 0 Licence lineups are growing at provincial building room 103 With only three more days to get licences the offices will be open Saturday at 8 30 am to 4 pm to allow drivers to get their licence registrations L1 A i A Insiae today 4 w H s m l aHHBi m it iwks m Business 5 Classified w 20 21 22 23 24 25 2G Comics 10 Crossword 22 Editorial 4 Home and fam family ¬ ily G Horoscope 10 Second front 15 Sports 16 17 Tele Television ¬ vision 8 1MB i Jm And this is one of me hiding behind a tree1 Weather Sunny today andSatuiday with winds northeasterly 20 to 25 and gustinj High both days five above low tonight five to 15 below Hanging sentence commuted WINNIPEG CP Police Chief Not man Stewart said Thursday he was not at all surprised at the announcement that the federal government has commuted the death sentence of Thomas Mason Shand Shand 32 of Winnipeg was sentenced to be hanged March 8 aftei conviction of the June 27 1970 stabbing death of Winnipeg Detecthe Robeit Houston Chief Stewart said Theye commuted eery other death sentence for killing a po liceman It was the fourth time the cabinet has suspended a death sentence Imposed under a five year trial law that allows capl tal punishment only In cases wheie police or prison guards aie slain on duty It was the second time In just over one year that the Killer of a Winnipeg policeman lias been spared the death sentence Cliffoid Wlckett Lurvey had his death sentence commuted Dec 23 1970 after being sen tenced to be hanged for the kill killing ¬ ing of Constable L W Shake speare during an aimed rob bery The Winnipeg chief said the trial law was supposed to be tor a trial period but it hasnt been a trial period at all be cause they havent done any thing different to what they were doing before 1Swi iff iwfafc Jnfe 9 Mr HBbhbBi it I 4 I 10c Copy A t JHB - iUtti fcB iu j Dnftm 0UIko fefflA- -rrr BC aj vuMa Crisis Centre representative Donna Mogndge left takes delivery of more than 15000 pennies The do nation comes from students of Kelly Road Junior Secondary School who collected the money during their winter festival Snow Queen Debbie Swanson delivered the money to day -Citizen photo by Dave Milne rr iVRsiV l ariiTsrjCir n n 4 f ll i Ti 1 i ii-1--r 1 Jaii-2iCiw-r -s-TTCa ie ii rwijirTituCri -rsrz AiFii - 4tiPh3j ii 1i--i fr2WiaS Jl SVe rs XrrT052MSE33teeZhT3O A killing Trudeau cool to abortions SAULT STE MARIE Ont CP - Prime Min Minister ¬ ister Trudeau Thursday took a strong stand against abortion on demand after hearing an appeal for repeal of Canadas abortion laws Peterson hit for lousy job9 VICTORIA CP - Attorney General Leslie Peterson was accused In the B C legislature Thursday night of doing a lousy job over the past year and creating a climate of high distrust foi the law Barrle Clark L North Van couver Seymour said during the debate on the attorney general s salary estimates that Mr Peter son is in a position to encour age and cultivate respect for law but instead has given many elements In the province reason to be highly suspect of auth orlty He cited delays In orderlrga public inquiry into last year s riots In Vancouvers Gastown aiea and the ministers rldl culous confrontation with the topless clubs while doing little to solve the drug problem and the highest crime rate in Can ada Mr Clark said the Landlord Tenant Act was full of loopholes Answering a woman who rep resented a local womens libera tion group Mr Trudeau said that at some point an abortion Is a killing A woman shouid explain her reasons for seeking an abortion just as any man who has killed must answei for his deed the prime minister said The quietly emotional ex change capped a qutstlon and answer session at a ciowdtd town meeting organized by the Liberal party here Abouf 800 people listened as Mr Trudeau handled questions ranging from Trench language television to the monarchy The prime minlstei was in Sault Ste Marie to begin a two day swing through Northern On tarlo lie visits North nay tur geon Tails Strathcona and Sud bury today befote returning to Ottawa onlght Eaily Thursday the prime minister was In a relaxed mood as he told pai ty supporters at a Libei al l e c e p 1 1 o n that they should not be pushed around by critics of the goernments record He pointed with piide to envi environment ¬ ronment and consumer affairs legislation and efforts to estab llsh more national parks Mr Trudeau received a brief at the town meeting from a womens liberation group led by Rosalie Gardezl of Sault Ste Mai ie Builders1 head warns Hello out there9 CAPE KENNEDY Reuter Spacecraft Pioneer 10 ready for launch on what ini initially ¬ tially is a probe of Jupiter nnj some day deliver a mes message ¬ sage about earth to life on some unknown planet in inter interstellar ¬ stellar space The message the idea of Cornell Universltj astrono rmrs Drs Trank Drake and Carl Sagan is told with the figures of a nnn and wonnn and scientific symbols etched on a ihque The man has his right arm outstretched in a sign of goodwill Etched on a gold anodlzed aluminum plate meisuiingsU by nine inches aie sketches diagrams and binary num beis the simile two digit Hit in head Ireland home affaiis minister was shot and wounded by gun men in the AllIi eland eccle siastical capital of Aimagh today officials i eported First leports said he suffered head wounds but was still alive when admitted to hospital Taylor in his mld30s is the first member of Prime Minlstei computer code indicating where the spacecraft came fi om s here it w as launched and what the people look like w ho sent it The plaque which is mount mounted ¬ ed on the antenna support struts of Ploner w is de designed ¬ signed by Sagan s wife Linda The spacecraft is atop in AUas Centaur rocket which will launch It Sunday on a two j ear vojage to Jupiter the largest planet in our solai sjstem The journey of somp G20 million miles to Jupitei will take the spacecraft past the moon s orbit in 11 houis at a speed of about 32400 miles an hour It will speed tow aid in infinity ¬ finity at an even faster rate of 49320 mph Faulknei s cabinet to under assassination at tempt since the outlawed Iris Republican Ai my oi ened Its piesent campaign to unite the North w lth the nelghboi ing It lsh Republic Tayloi was shot as he mteied his car Seeral shots shattued the windshield Eyewitnesses said blood was Policemen say Drapeau lied MONTREAL CP - Two po licemen testified today Mayor Jean Drapeau lied to a Quebec Police Commission inquiry when he said he knew nothing of a document allegedly signed by a woman in 1967 and Incrimi Incriminating ¬ nating Montreal Police Chief Jean Jacques Saulnler Lieut Emile Ducharme and Constable Leo Vllleneuve told the Inquiry the mayor lied when he said he knew nothing about a declaration by Martha Adams and that it was not among the mayors documents The two policemen said the declaration had been Included in a series of documents they gave Mayor Drapeau in May 1967 and had been discussed during a meeting a year later with the mayor tor about two hours Confusion reigned In the courtroom when Constable Vll Vllleneuve ¬ leneuve said Mayor Drapeau had lied during his testimony when he said he did not know Miss Adams The officer later clarified the statement The clarification made it clear the constable was claim claiming ¬ ing Mayor Drapeau wrongly de denied ¬ nied knowledge of the declara declaration ¬ tion not Miss Adams Constable Vllleneuve in pre previous ¬ vious testimony said Miss Adams had made a declaration Incriminating Mr Saulnler In April 1967 Miss Adams later denied having any knowledge of the declaration although she recognized the signature as hers Fraser to admit welfare patients The owners of the Simon Fra Fraser ¬ ser Private Hospital have had a change of heart and decided to ad admit ¬ mit welfare patients Reason for the change in policy administiator Anne Dusseault said today is that it s unfair that the regional hospital should suffer for the shortcomings of the provincial government A decision not to admit any additional welfare patients was made in the fall because of a prov ince wide dispute between pri private ¬ vate hospitals and the provincial government The minimum charge at Simon Fraser is 1250 a day but the department of rehabilitation and social improvement refuses to pay more than 10 25 a day for people on welfare Trustees and doctors at the Prince George Regional Hospital were concerned at the ban on welfare patients because it meant long term patients could not be transferred to the Simon Traser They had to remain in the over overcrowded ¬ crowded regional hospital at a cost of 40 a day At the end of January there were 20 patients in the acute care hospital who did not need such expensive care The regional hospital board was told Thursday in a report from administrator Colin Elliott that the situation has been al alleviated ¬ leviated The Simon Traser Private Hospital is now taking patients and we have also had transfers to some extended care hospi tals They the Simon Traser have taken some of our patients said chairman Tom Scott I take it because they have some emj ty beds Mrs Dusseault said the pri private ¬ vate hospital began readmitting patients Teb 1 Since then nine have been ad admitted ¬ mitted There were empty beds she said but if the hospital liad been full no patients would have been admitted whether on welfare or not The hospital is now fairly close to capacity she said Beds were occupied or sjoken for It is loaded with delces that will analjse tic atmos atmosphere ¬ phere and chaiacteiistlcs of Jupiter and take hotogiaphs Space agency officials hope that the communications sys system ¬ tem will last for seven ears after launch so that further measurements of outer space can be made as Pionei races along a path neer before tia velled Seen jeais would take it 15 billion miles fiom eai th It will b the fastest space ci aft e ei to lea e eai th and the flist to ti to penetiate the astiei old belt a legion of whirling debris between the oi bits of Mais and Jupiter thought to be the rtnnins of a planet that disintegrated Ulster gunmen shoot minister BELrAST Noithern Ireland Rrtnn AP John Taj lor Northern come pom Ing fiom the minlstei s head Tayloi has geneially been supposed to be on the tight wing of the goveinnunt Unionist paity As junloi home affalts minis tet he was dltectly lesponslble to Taulknet on secuilty mat ters i m a g h wheie both the Roman Catholic and the Piotes tant churches of It eland hae theii tathedials is 40 miles south of Belfast and close to the botdet with the It lsh Rei ubllc One other politician has been assassinated dining the IR campaign He was Senator John Barnhill shot down at his home In the bolder town of Stiabane last year British officials closely con cerned with Northern Ireland security have for the last month been forecasting that the IRA would resort to political assassl- nation They argued it was losing out to British troops In guetrllla warfate on the streets and would turn to political killing in the Noi th in Britain and in the nelghboi ing It lsh Republic An eyewitness who arrived within minutes of the shooting said Tayloi was slumped over the steering wheel of the car his head bleeding pi ofusely Belfast i olice headquarters said He has apparently been hit a number of times He has been taken to a local hospital but we have no Idea of his con dltion Police and British troops in the Northern capital were put on full scale alei t Immediately after the shooting in case the assassination bid siaiked off large scale rioting in the after math of a day of bombing Robber gets seven years Marc Morissette 22 was to today ¬ day sentenced in county court to seven years in the British Columbia Penitentiary for his part In the Aug 31 armed rob bery of the Sacred Heart Credit Union at 807 Victoria Last week his partner in the robbery Jacques Bellemare 29 was sentenced to eight years In prison after he pleaded guilty to the charge Morissette told Judge RW Kennedy today he was innocent of the clurge I am not guilty 1 e said In the robbery the two men entered the credit union office in broad daylight tied up three employees and two customers In the office and absconded with 7931 Home buyers need bylaw protection Stu Woods president of the Prince George Homo Build Builders ¬ ers Association today called for laws to protect buyers In rural or unorganized areas He described the proposed regional district bylaw 55 as a proper vehicle to help ensui e the homeowner doesn t get bilked The bylaw will demand of developers that the services they are offering to the pub public ¬ lic be it water septic tanks sewers or roads will be in installed ¬ stalled to proper engineering standards so that the often unsuspecting homebuyer will gt what he bargained for and can live with a feeling of financial security Woods said In a statement Woods whose organization represents about 75 home builders in the area also took a swipe at a group calling It Itself ¬ self the Civil Watchers Referring to the recent de defeat ¬ feat of Bylaw 54 Woods said the fear and smear campaign of the Civil Watchers Club should cause all citizens some concern It is hoped that the regional board Fraser Fort George Regional Distrlctwlll give approval to its subdivi subdivision ¬ sion security bylaw Bylaw 55 so that In the future we will not be faced with the water prob problems ¬ lems of Parkridgethe sewage disposal problems of Birch wood and Western Acres and further see that prime devel development ¬ opment land is not subdivided into urban type lots without any basic services on an en enduring ¬ during specification Woods supported the re regions ¬ gions efforts to create a Prince George Water and Sewer District which would assimilate the water improve improvement ¬ ment districts In the area and ensure they would get water supply and sewage dis disposal ¬ posal When this comes about you can be assured that the requirements for low cost mortgage funds and the avail availability ¬ ability of such will be met he said The day has long gone wrere land developers can masticate land to create a subdivision put no services in whatsoever sell to the un unsuspecting ¬ suspecting public and take the profits and get out It is high time tlut the fa facilities ¬ cilities offered by members of our association CMHC and conventional lenders who have money at nominal rates for housing be Induced to expand their capabilities to the rural areas of our region However there is not any possibility of this being done unless some security Is given to the homeowners and the mortgage investor that the subdivisions produced will have the basic requirements and guaranteed by the develop developer ¬ er that the basic require requirements ¬ ments will stand up and not become a future charge or hardship to the individual home buyers Woods said that about 85 per cent of the homes built in the Greater Prince George area were constiucted by members of his association He suggested that they would build more In outlying areas when these subdivisions could ensure water supply sewage disposal and some pollution control and Indicated that In Intel ¬ tel est rates for building there would be lower