Allens B ottie Depot 1922 1st Ave Open 9 to 5 Mon thru Sat BEER POP BOTTLE RETURNS Phone 562 3871 launched a major attack on juvenile delinquency by beginning a program to revamp the entire provincial family court system Provincial Court Judge Harold Keenleyside has been appointed head of a three member committee to imple implement ¬ ment many of 66 recommenda recommendations ¬ tions contained in the fourth report of a royal commission on family and childrens law the attorney general told a news conference It is hoped the committee will be able to devise a system to balance the concepts of totally segregating juvenile offenders from society or allowing almost total permis permissiveness ¬ siveness said Mr Macdonald If the court facilities are designed to solve juvenile problems rather than to punish offenders youngsters likely would be more receptive to the judicial system he said The provinces 45 justice councils will help initiate the program which will be implemented in stages he added IWA agreed but the other two unions went ahead with pre viouslymade strike arrange arrangements ¬ ments Mr Justice Hutcheon com completed ¬ pleted his second day of talks Thursday and said he was tired Picketing problems that arose earlier Thursday appeared to be resolved at two Vancouver Island locations The IWA said its members were prevented from working at MacMillan Bloedels Chemainus logging division and at a Cipa lumber sawmill near Nanaimo The pickets were withdrawn at Chemainus and the IWA workers returned but at Cipa the plant remained shut down after the pickets left Canadian Cellulose owned 79 per cent by the British Columbia government was reported shutting down its sawmill and logging opera operations ¬ tions at Terrace That would affect 800 IWA members Canadian Forest Products announced it willclose its Eburne sawmill in the Fraser Valley affecting 585 IWA members and other mills are expected to follow as wood chips destined for the idle pulp mills pile up Another 6000 IWA members are off work for varying reasons Have We Got A Paint For You Carbozite Protective Coatings - 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Deputy attorney general David Vic kerssaid today it appears the Gold River Indians on Van Vancouver ¬ couver Island own the land on which they have blockaded a road which leads to a govern government ¬ ment wharf Mr Vickers said in an inter interview ¬ view preliminary investiga investigation ¬ tion shows the Indians mann manning ¬ ing the blockade own the land where the road block is located and the government cant do much to force the Indians to remove the blockade Gold River police reported today the roadblock has remained in place Mr Vickers released letters Thursday to the Gold River band and Mount Currie Indian Hostel beds empty The summers of transient youth seem to be diminishing with the employment rate and the Prince George youth hostel at 655 Wainwright St has a lot of empty beds Hostel co ordinator Ellen Small said less than half the people who used the facility last year are using it now On some nights she said only 30 of the hostels 80 beds are in use Unemployment is the reason she said There were a lot more people here last year This year they seem to be keeping their jobs Miss Small said many of the hostel guests are from Quebec and the United States Ive even got letters from all over Europe and the United States from people who want to stay here she said Few women have been stay staying ¬ ing at the hostel she added band near Pemberton BC demanding the two roadblocks be removed He said the Mount Currie band was protesting 10 points nine of which fall under federal jurisdiction Blast suspects get remands Three men charged in the July 7 blast which shattered four windows in the Hudson Bay store here were remanded to Aug 1 in provincial court today Charged in the incident are Gilbert Lafleur 17 of Prince George Dale MacLeod 23 of Salmon Valley and David Weaver 17 of Prince George Lafleur and MacLeod are charged with discharging an explosive substance and Weaver is charged with pos possession ¬ session of an explosive sub substance ¬ stance Contractors or Do-It-Yourselfer Contact HANDYMAN Concrete Excavating Ltd Formerly B M Excavating The citys impaired drivers program is also sadly unique -Nearly five per cent of those who enrol are repeaters com compared ¬ pared with the national aver average ¬ age of only two per cent But thats Prince George first in everything said the traffic department head Fraser and CARnage see three answers to the deteriorating traffic safety situation More enforcement More education Better engineering Even though statistics seem to show Prince George has the highest ratio of traffic prosecu prosecutions ¬ tions in the province the ser sergeant ¬ geant thinks more could be done by getting risky drivers off the road before they kill innocent people 90 cent gasoline predicted VANCOUVER CP -Prices for gasoline in remote areas of British Columbia may increase to about 90 cents a gallon by late August the assistant general manager of the BC Automobile Associa Association ¬ tion said Thursday Jack Chestunt said average prices in the Vancouver area now are in the area of 72 cents to 749 cents a gallon for reg regular ¬ ular with lower prices around 689 cents a gallon at self service stations He said prices in more isolated areas of the province tend to be higher Prices increased 10 cents a gallon July 1 when a Canadian federal excise tax went into effect to increase revenues and discourage use of gasoline said Mr Chestunt He said federal officials rebuffed his organizations protest by saying in effect If you dont like it dont buy it Mr Chestnut said another five cent increase for every gallon may be applied in Aug August ¬ ust but it is uncertain whether the BC government will allow it Attorney General Alex Mac Macdonald ¬ donald said Wednesday that the province has assumed responsibility for the pricing of gasoline for the past year and a half He said although two oil companies have told the federal government they intend to increase gasoline prices Aug 15 the BC Energy Commission will announce what increase if any will be passed on to the provinces motorists Mr Macdonald said an increase was expected but there has been no decision as to the amount In the past our boys have shown a sharp pencil and their popularity with the interna international ¬ tional oil companies is at an all time low said the minis minister ¬ ter United States drives may be consoled by the fact that the Imperial gallon of gasoline sold in Canada is equal to five US quarts THE CITIZEN Prince George - Friday July 18 1975 - 3 And then theres a mass of mangled flesh CARnage is a committee formed in Prince George to fight the increasing death toll on district roads This is the first of a series of articles exploring the problem facing this group by BILL GRAHAM Citizen Staff Reporter They think they are invinci invincible ¬ ble This is RCMP Sgt Sandy Frasers image of the drivers who cause most traffic fatalities in the Prince George area Sgt Fraser is a member of CARnage the committee formed last week to do some something ¬ thing about the areas alarm alarming ¬ ing traffic fatality record of 27 deaths so far this year Were talking about the kind of guy who is in a traffic lineup with his friends and wants to show what his car can do said Sgt Fraser who heads the city traffic department He has had a few drinks and is at the early stages of impair impairment ¬ ment He feels he is invincible He pulls out of the line and accelerates up the road hell hellbent ¬ bent to pass every car in the line Ahead there is a curve or a dip and a family is returning from a picnic laughing and talking when suddenly they meet this mass of steel coming down at 80 mph The guy tries to get back in but cant He stands on the brakes and loses control com completely ¬ pletely When the cars hit the kids inside are thrown against the dashboard like unguided missiles And then theres a mass of mangled flesh Fraser has seen two acci accidents ¬ dents like this already this year The driver if he lives is usually very remorseful He cant figure out why he pulled out and killed two of his best friends Neither can we If the causes are obscure the circumstances of most high highway ¬ way deaths are tediously familiar Sixty per cent involve passing accidents and driver error Most involve speeding In 70 per cent of deaths one or both drivers was drunk Forty per cent of victims were between 16 and 25 years old Studies prove less than five per cent of accidents result from mechanical faiiures Fraser said The lethal combination is speed booze and youth There must be more booze consumed here per capita than anywhere else in the pro province ¬ vince Fraser served In June alone Frasers department charged 132 people with impaired driving In the first six months of the year 644 accidents occurred compared with 506 for the same period last year After Vancouver Prince George has the highest number of criminal code traf traffic ¬ fic prosecutions in BC in spite of being much smaller than such centres as Burnaby and Surrey Sgt FRASER Judges sworn in PULPWORKERS DISPUTE Strikers dig in VANCOUVER CP - More mill shutdowns were reported Thursday as British Colum Columbias ¬ bias huge forestry industry began feeling the spreading effects of a strike by nearly 12000 pulp workers The pulp workers members of the Pulp Paper and Wood Woodworkers ¬ workers of Canada and the Canadian Paperworkers Union went on strike Wednes Wednesday ¬ day at all 20 pulp mills in the province Affected in the central interior are Prince George Pulp and Paper Ltd Intercon Intercontinental ¬ tinental Pulp and Northwood Pulp in Prince George BC Forest Products in Macken Mackenzie ¬ zie and Cariboo Pulp and Paper Ltd in Quesnel IWA members are affected in Mac kenzie where pulpworkers are picketing a forest complex that includes a sawmill The two unions had joined the larger 35000 members International Woodworkers of America in bargaining with the three employer associa associations ¬ tions and went on strike Wed Wednesday ¬ nesday despite a request not to from provincial Labor Minis Minister ¬ ter Bill King Mr King last week appointed Mr Justice Henry Hutcheon of the BC Supreme Court as special mediator and gave him 21 days to bring in a non binding report on the 200 areas of dispute between the unions and the companies Mr King asked the unions to withhold strike action until the report was completed The Revamped program to fight delinquency VICTORIA CP - 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