91 HlHH THliiimJy HHflBIBIHIbB IIIIIIIIIBIIIIIIIIIVil HIH tI jHHhWe I I JMHhL 1 HHHBmUBKitf fSfn HH1111111111111b111111H UlllilllllliH I HHHIH - HHH h- HH iiMaBfrjMWiiiMiii flWf 1 mA I 1 1 9HB1T i h fflHSfHK jRJ S HBiH -m H MCv irBJliBP I Hb r Blln4 i fej 111 ll 1 21 JIH 11H -ttt -JrllllllllllllHllllHHiWuHiv 7 iiilllllllllllllllBRHHMIIiiK Jr m BF I iIH UkfkrjLfBVfVnVHElllLl r r iV 1 - FIRE BLACKENED windows of the Canada and Astoria hotels make bleak scene viewed from Queensway Street today Both were ravaged RELATIVES IN RUSSIA engineers go on work-to-rule A work-to-rule campaign by locomotive engineers of the BC Railway BCR has plugged the interchange yard between the provincial rail railway ¬ way and the Canadian National railways CNR here with loaded freight cars A reliable source who declined to be named ently been conducting a work-to-rule campaign since last Thursday It is believed the engineers are unhappy with fringe benefits in a contract negotiated last year It is not known how wide widespread ¬ spread the work-to-rule cam campaign ¬ paign has become A spokes spokesman ¬ man fnr the RPR unnM nf estimated today there were commenton the dispute but it between 150 and 200 loaded t lnvolv on th pulp chip cars currently eJnemen- stalled in the interchange Empty freight cars destined The spokesman did say that for the boxcar starved BCR meetings between the corn were being held in the CNRs Pny and engineers general Prince George yards until the chairman Ken Mason of Wil dispute is resolved liams Lake were continuing in The slowdown has also an effort to reach an agree- forced the BCR to re route ment Mason was not available over the CNR some freight for comment destined for Vancouver Another source said both The locomotive drivers sides have been refusing to members of the United Tran- admit that the slowdown was sportation Union have appar- taking ung place piace By Bill Graham Citizen Staff Reporter The fish and wildlife branch plans to hire six predator control officers this year bowing to pressure from northern ranchers for grea greater ¬ ter control of wolves We have to respond to demands from the agricultural industry for greater protection said branch director Dr James Hatter in a telephone interview from Victoria We would rather do this ourselves than turn it over to the department of agriculture We have 30 years of experience and a number Citizen photo by Doug WeDer by major fires in the past two months and one man was killed in the Canada Hotel blaze Tuesday An investigation is under way Canada fights for ethnics By Ben Tierney Southam News Services GENEVA - For a nation that could be described as an outsider Canada has found itself playing a fairly substan substantial ¬ tial role at the Conference on Security and Co operation in Europe Because of her particular interest in ethnic groups she has been pushing hard for a loosening up within the Soviet Bloc of attitudes towards the movement of people back and forth across national bound boundaries ¬ aries In particular she has emphasized the need for the countries of Europe to do something more than they have in the past about the fact that many families on the con continent ¬ tinent today are cut off from relatives elsewhere by bound boundaries ¬ aries and the various restric restrictive ¬ tive policies that go with them BC Rail And this as it happens is one of the most sensitive areas of discussion at the CSCE talks Canada signalled its inten intention ¬ tion to take some initiative in what has become known as the family reunification area of the conference as far back as last July when the CSCE talks were in their preliminary stages in Helsinki Once the talks moved to Geneva Canada raised the question again reminding the conference of its particular interest by noting that there probably was not one of the 35 nations participating in the talks that did not have families with relatives in Canada And since then it has put for forward ¬ ward a detailed proposal The proposal states that all of the countries attending the conference should agree that those who wish to move back and forth across frontiers to visit or live with their close relatives should be allowed to do so with a minimum of diffi difficulty ¬ culty and in an atmosphere of acceptance of tolerance It suggests that countries should not impute political or economic motives to those wishing to move thus indirectly suggesting that no threat of possible penalty or punishment should hang over the head of those who might wish to move It states that all countries should take steps to avoid involving families who wish to move in excess documen UK TAXPAYERS tationsred tape and in undue delays between the time they apply for and are granted permission to move It suggests that their should be no excessive financial bur burden ¬ den on those who want to go such as though the Canadian proposal does not specifically say so requiring citizens to pay for the education they have received before depar departure ¬ ture The Canadian proposal further suggests that those leaving a particular country should have the right to sell their belongings LONDON CP Have tively small bites at higher more kids pack up smoking income earners especially and turn off the telly was the those with children wry advice of one raincoated As usual tax increases working man to another as across the board hit the single news of Denis Healeys first person hardest with the Labor budget buzzed around exception of single pensioners the city Old folk got their promised 30- He referred to the budgets per cent raise to 10 23 a give-a-bit take-a-bit pattern week for a single person 16 which handed out more tax benefits for the family man but levied tough new taxes on cigarettes and spirits and announced soaring increases in electricity charges His companion grunted Oh well therell be another election in July Plenty of time to emigrate to Australia Meanwhile the London stock exchange plunged to its lowest level in 11 years follow- On broker called it a blood bloodbath ¬ bath On the whole though the general reaction up and down the income scale has been It might have been worse Treasury chief Healey who when in opposition had pro promised ¬ mised to make the rich howl with with anguish anguish took took compara- compara- RIO DE JANEIRO Reuter Floods have destroyed the south Brazilian city of Tubarao killing an estimated 1500 per persons ¬ sons and leaving 60000 of the ing the presentation of the aus- 70000 inhabitants homeless a terity budget report said here today The report published in the daily newspaper Estado de Dao Paulo said survivors armed with knives were fight fighting ¬ ing for the best part of animal carcasses The report said air force helicopters are dropping food into into the me city city and ana each eacn person person Inside Today Business 6 Classified 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Comics 32 Crossword 19 Editorial 4 Home Fam Family ily 26 Horoscope 40 Second Front 13 Sports 14 15 16 Television 40 More kids less TV A First Id like to thank my producer 3680 for a married couple Hazel Armstrong a 47 yearold unmarried clerk from suburban Kent earning 3000 a year 6900 said she already paid a lot of tax and will have to pay more Actually her tax bill will rise by about 30 a year when enlarged allowances come into account Hundreds left as flood levels dead city is receiving one slice of bread one banana and one orange a day The city is isolated after its access bridges collapsed the report added The once bust bustling ¬ ling centre has been swept away The grim report of the flooded city came from jour journalist ¬ nalist Herculano Domincio and photographer Mario Bar betta who walked rode and swam into the city of Tubarao near the Atlantic coast in southern flood plagued Santa Catanna uatanna state state ivv v vv vttrXXtIXvv I vv v vv vvv v v vvvVvvvvvv v v vvv vvvv vv V VtV it4 iiiil ll iiiittt Vi i VVVVt i V imii V VV i Vi i VVVVVVVVVVViVVVVViVV SCHOOL PE PROGRAM Obedience class hit Physical education prog programs ¬ rams for Grades 8 to 12 are really obedience classes and students who take part in community sports activities should be excused from them a school trustee charged Tues Tuesday ¬ day Chuck Truscott said turning up without gym strip is the real reason most secondary students fail the course Its ludicrous that so many kids involved in community sports are failing physical education PE in school How can you fail physical education the trustee asked Ranchers win fight to control wolves The Bulkley Nechako Regional District recently asked the government to place pre predator ¬ dator control under the department of agricul agriculture ¬ ture because the fish and wildlife branch could not respond quickly to requests from ranchers Hatter said the wolf a game animal and a valuable one is properly controlled by the branch He emphasized that a stepped up program of predator control would affect agricultural areas but not wildlife territory He said the matter has been discussed at a number of meetings of a predator control commit- sodium fluoracetate 10 80 to kill wolves and will turn to other poisons or methods he said Roger Goodlad Prince George regional director of the branch said the new officers have been budgeted for Prince George and Smithers in the north plus Penticton Kam Ioops and Nanaimo in southern BC A sixth officer would manage and assess the control program Goodlad said the program is better termed nuisance control because wolves and coyotes are not the only animals affected Even moose and deer can be nuisance ani- The new officers will train other conserva tion officers in the control of nuisance animals so that the branch can respond more rapidly to requests He said specialists on the subject will soon attend a workshop on nuisance animal control to be held in Hinton Alta Hatter said predator control should be consi considered ¬ dered secondary to the bigger question of whether we should put cattle everywhere there is a blade of grass and then kill the pre predators ¬ dators We have been called in to control wolves in areas where cows should never have been allowed auowea to to graze graze I have found they are really obedience classes and the real reason kids fail is they turn up without gym strip He proposed that students involved in minor sports be given passing marks in physi physical ¬ cal education The plan would relieve heavy pressure for use of gyms Truscott said The administration will study the proposal and report on its feasibility The trustee said education supervisors are also con concerned ¬ cerned about the problem which does not affect elemen elementary ¬ tary schools LOSING MONEY - Only four students received an A mark for the subject in one school recently he said It means that either the teachers fail the kids are failed or the system fails I think the system is the prob problem ¬ lem Kids can do anything they want in PF class if they are the first 15 to line up If you want an A you have to be in badminton or volleyball The last 15 get snowshoes an average sport for an aver average ¬ age mark Bush airline rap mine act By Derry McDonell Citizen Staff Reporter Officials of two local airlines say they are being driven out of the province by the mining industrys reaction to Bill 31 the Mineral Royalties Act Dan Wieb chief pilot for Northern Mountain Helicop Helicopters ¬ ters Ltd and Lowell Ritchey operations manager for Northern Thunderbird Airlines say their firms have lost over 200000 in contracts so far this year as mining firms continue to curtail exploration projects Wieb said the cutbacks are a reaction to the govern governments ¬ ments new mining bill which the industry feels removes financial incentive to look for new mineral sources He said many mining firms were endangered by the cut have relocated their explora- back in exploration projects tion projects outside the pro- Besides the companies vince and Northern Mountain themselves said Moffat Helicopters is having to fol- there is all the business we low them in order to stay in get from the individual business employees who come to us to Ritchey said Northern Thun- jggf ffiS knlves and nADags axes so derbird has had more than 130000 in contracts cancelled this year and he doubts the loss can be made up in BC Were not like the helicop helicopter ¬ ter companies he said Our working area is retricted by federal licence Ritchey said unless the federal ministry of transport granted them a new licence permitting them to work out outside ¬ side the province Northern Thunderbird would have to rely on forming a consortium with other airlines which had licences in the area where exploration was taking place He said it was very unlikely Northern Thunder Thunderbird ¬ bird would be able to get a new licence Northern Thunderbird oper operates ¬ ates 17 fixed wing aircraft and employs up to 65 people in the summer months Ritchey said however that layoffs were a definite possibility this year unless some more work could be found Servicing the mining indus industry ¬ try including passenger and air freight services makes up about 25 per cent of our annual revenue he said Wieb said Northern Moun Mountain ¬ tain Helicopters had lost more than 60000 in contracts and this did not include related work which the major con contracts ¬ tracts normally generate He pointed out that his firm regularly flew in supplies and food to the mining camps and that the bulk of these goods were purchased in Prince George We bought and flew in an average of 6000 pounds of groceries a week last year said Wieb Harold Moffat president of Northern Hardware Ltd a major outfitter of mining firms working in the northern half of the province said his firm had several contracts worth in excess of 10000 each which on Wieb said most of the explo exploration ¬ ration being done this year seems to be taking place in the Yukon and Northwest Ter Territories ¬ ritories and his firm has had to make plans to be there also DOCTOR ANGRY a Limpet raid1 net tightens at harbors LONDON AP - Scot Scotland ¬ land Yard has ordered a security alert at British ports following reports that a squad of Arab frog frogmen ¬ men are planning a limpet attack on Israeli ships newspapers reported today They said about 20 ter terrorists ¬ rorists who have been trained in Australia plan to plant underwater explo explosive ¬ sive charges on the hulls of Israeli ships in British ports Scotland Yard declined to comment on the reports However one source said the Yard has received unconfirmed reports that about 14 Arab terrorists are heading for Britain Health report a manifesto The Foulkes report on pro provincial ¬ vincial health care was termed a socialist manifesto by a doctor at the annual meeting of the Prince George Regional Hospital Society Tuesday During the meeting Don McKinnon who earlier this year chaired a meeting at which Dr Richard Foulkes explained his report was called upon to give a brief talk on the document However some members doctors among them opposed the idea of McKinnon delivering a brief talk Dr Fergus Ducharme the most vocal opponent called the two volume study a manifesto Non socialist party fails VANCOUVER CP - Pro Provincial ¬ vincial Conservative Leader Scott Wallace says it appears he has failed in his efforts to create a new non socialist party out of British Columbias three existing opposition parties He said in an interview Tues Tuesday ¬ day he expects to report this to a meeting of his partys board of officers scheduled for Saturday in Vancouver u Every group in town has been used as a mouthpiece for this piece of propaganda he told the meeting I fail to see why the hospital society should serve as a mouthpiece for the Foulkes report If they want to know about it they should read the paper McKinnon suggested that since the meeting was nearly at an end anyone who didnt want to hear what he had to say could leave the building Dr Ducharme and two other members of the audience of about 50 people left the meet meeting ¬ ing McKinnon went on to say that the Foulkes report is a matter of great concern to hos hospital ¬ pital societies in that it defines a new role for them He said that a massive number of appointees would enter the field under the report and this is not the greatest way to get people to help the sick He said that hospital societies are a heck of a good way to run the show and that the system is placed in jeopardy if the report is implemented Let us not pretend that this report does not exist said McKinnon pointing out that some of the recommendations are already being put into practice - jBr mr it i r of specialists on staff tee The branch will stop using the poison mals he said -w VTTTVVVri v VV vv vvv v VV VVV VVVvVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV vvvvvvv vvtyx vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv I