2 — THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Monday, October ?0. 1980 NEW, LIGHT CARS BLAMED 'Bodyshop bills will soar VANCOUVER (CP) -Detroit's new, light, fuel-efficient cars, said to be the wave of the future, will send repair bills for even minor accidents sky-high, say local body shop spokesmen. As the front-wheel-drive unitized body cars take over, “they're going to throw the bodyshop industry for a loop.” said Tony Dean of Dean Brothers Collision. The cars, because of their design, will require more extensive and more expensive repairs when damaged. John England, bodyshop manager for Dick Irwin Chevrolet. said Saturday. “The way these cars are 1 ,lr Citizen Provincial designed a simple bumper hit that would do no damage to the old steel-frame cars causes them hundreds of dollars in damage,” England said. ‘‘They’re so light they cave right in. Even a little hit to the front end damages the steering and suspension and a slightly heavier hit A CCOUXTA II1X BOOKKEEPING & ACCOUNTING SERVICE 201*1575-5th Ave. 562-4660 knocks the engine out of alignment.” The new cars combine front wheel drive and the lighter, unitized body with all body and frame parts welded together in one piece. Unibody cars are more likely to have their suspension and steering damaged in an accident because they are directly connected to The friends of Regent College committee are sponsoring an afternoon with Dr. Bruce Waltke Professor of Old Testament of Regent College at 1st Baptist Church Sunday November 2 3:00 p.m. "Knowing God's Wisdom: An Introduction to the Book of Proverbs" (we will be sponsoring a 14 week course on "Proverbs" - tape and discussion format - February-April 1981) An offering will be received Maybe it's time you jumped into something more demanding than a car pool. the body, rather than the frame, the spokesmen said. In an accident with steel-frame cars, said England, ‘‘we could heat the frame and bend it back, but the manufacturers of the new cars say they can’t be heated, they must be straightened out to very close tolerances on a frame machine.” Frame machines cost a minimum $30,000, and as more of the new cars come on the road, ‘‘the shops are going to have to purchase new, sophisticated equipment if they want to stay in business,” said Ron Baldwin of the Automotive Retailers Association. ‘‘It is more critical that it (repair work) be done properly because of the front wheel drive,” agreed Don McLean, parts distribution centre manager for General Motors, but argued that the cars are safer for passengers in accidents than the same size car with a steel frame. The Insurance Corp. of B.C. “is looking at the increased use of damage-ability as a factor in the rating of a car,” said spokesman Bev Penahll, but so far, only a few of the new cars have come into bodyshops after accidents. Coming soon ... the Sound Cellar Technics 2 DAYS ONLY Fri. Oct. 24th, Sat. Oct. 25th ' FINE GIFTWARE and JEWELLERY A lam tugboat pushes against the wall of drydock holding the iumbo ferry Queen of Coquit-m. The ferry’s pump failed, causing it to tilt against the wall of the drydock. THE WEATHER Synopsis Temperatures Chilcotin, Cnriboo, Central Interior: Cloudy today with a few showers. Highs 8 to 10. Lows tonight near 0. Mostly sunny Tuesday. Highs 8 to 10. Greater Vancouver, Lower Fraser Valley, Howe Sound-Whistler, Sunshine Coast, East Vancouver Island: Mainly cloudy today with a few showers ending this evening. Highs today 13 or 14. Lows tonight 4 or 5. Sunny Tuesday except for morning fog and low clouds. Highs Tuesday about 13. North and West Vancouver Island: Mainly cloudy today with a few showers. Highs 12 to 13. Lows tonight about 5. Mainly sunny Tuesday. Highs 12 to 14. ' Northern Mainland: Mainly cloudy with a few showers today. Highs 10 or 11. Lows tonight 4 or 5. Mainly sunny Tuesday. Highs about 10. Queen Charlottes: Mainly cloudy with a few showers today. Highs about 12. VANCOUVER (CP) - High-low temperatures and precipitation in millimetres for the previous 24 hours issued Monday by the weather office: Cranbrook Penticton Revelstoke Vancouver Prince Rupert Stewart Port Hardy Comox Victoria Prince George Blue River Kamloops Dawson City Whitehorse Fort St. John Yellowknife Inuvik Lethbridge Medicine Hat Edmonton Calgary Saskatoon Regina Winnipeg Thunder Bay Toronto Ottawa Montreal St. John's Halifax Charlottetown Fredericton New York Los Angeles San Francisco Las Vegas 14 03 000 17 06 000 14 07 02 4 15 10 050 12 08 24 4 12 05 02 4 14 14 11 0 13 It 04 0 15 08 00.6 09 03 01 6 08 06 12.7 11 06 00 6 -02 -09 000 07 -05 ooo 12 00 000 06 01 002 -02 -04 04.4 18 02 000 16 02 000 15 -03 000 18 -01 00 0 16 02 006 17 03 000 06 02 000 05 -02 000 09 03 02 3 10 01 000 13 01 000 14 10 04 6 15 07 01.6 15 06 000 17 06 00 0 19 10 000 28 14 00 0 22 08 00 0 25 It 00 0 1455 - 3rd Ave. Phone 562-3802 THE PRO-LIFE SOCIETY OF PRINCE GEORGE AND VANDERHOOF The Pro-Life Society is a non-profit, voluntary group that maintains that life is sacred from conception until death. We are mainly an educational group concerned with the sanctity of life. The Pro-Life Society of Prince George has its monthly meetings on the third Monday of each month at 8:00 p.m. in St. Mary's Conference Room at 10th Avenue and Freeman Street. Everyone is welcome to these meetings. WHY DO WE NEED A PRO-LIFE SOCIETY? 1. The media does not give us a true picture of what is happening concerning abortion. 2. There is a radical, atheistic assault on he Christian sexuality and family life today. We must be informed to counter against these assaults. WHAT ACTIVITIES HAS THE PRO-LIFE SOCIETY BEEN INVOLVED IN DURING THE LAST YEAR? 1. Distribution of educational material at churches, the Pine Centre Mall and to school groups. 2. Bringing Robert Pearson to Prince George. 3. Presenting a brief to the Prince George Hospital Board. WHAT ARE OUR FUTURE PLANS? 1. Keep up our educational program. 2. We should look into the whole aspect of sex education for our children. Did you know the Canadian government has given millions of dollars to the Planned Parenthood Association of Canada? This group supports abortion as a back up to birth control and promotes radical changes in society. Do you want your tax dollar spent this way? 3. Study of the ageing. How will Canada develop adignified life for her old people? WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF I JOIN THE PRO LIFE SOCIETY? 1. By my knowledge I will become involved in a movement for life in a more informed way. 2. I will be put on the Pro-Life mailing list. 3.1 will receive the Pro-Life Newsletter four times a year. HOW DO I JOIN THE PRO LIFE SOCIETY OF B.C.? 1. Just fill the address slip at the bottom of this page and insert the slip into an envelope. You can mail the slip to us or we can pick it up from your pastor. 2. We ask for a $7.00 donation for membership. It is not essential. We are more interested in your membership than $7.00. Two dollars of your donation will go to the Pro-Life Society of B.C. and Alliance for Life. 3. If you wish you could make a small donation to the Pro-Life Society. At present we cannot give official income tax receipts. All money will be accounted for. It is our hope that we can establish a small Pro-Life Office in the future. I WOULD UKE TO JOIN THE PRO-LIFE SOCIETY OF PRINCE GEORGE AND VANDERHOOF Box 2333, Prince George, B.C. V2N 2J8 Name................................................................................... Phone No............................................................................ Address.............................................................................. City or Town...................................................................... Postal Code................................................. B.C. ferry falls over in drydock NORTH VANCOUVER (CP) - About $3 million damage was done to the ferry Queen of Coquitlam when it tipped in the floating drydock at Burrard shipyards here on Sunday, Highways Minister Alex Fraser said. Fraser said the big ferry probably will be out of service for three months instead of the one month scheduled for maintenance overhaul. He said ferry schedules will have to be reshuffled for an extended period because the main propulsion machinery was exposed to the corrosive effect of salt water and likely will have to be stripped and reassembled. He said he does not anticipate a lawsuit against Burrary Yarrows Corp., operators of the shipyard here. ‘‘They are responsible people and I assume they have insurance for that kind of thing,” Fraser said. One crew member received cuts to his hand when the vessel keeled over 30 degrees, tipping the drydock and allowing water in. Shipyard general manager Tom Duncan said the engine room was flooded because the ferry’s sea valves were open. The B.C. Ferry Corp. vessel entered the drydock Friday to undergo its annual refit. “Damage to the electrical and mechanical systems will likely be extensive,” Duncan said. Offer rejected at CP Air VANCOUVER (CP) - CP Air flight attendants have voted 67 per cent to reject the airline’s latest contract offer, a union spokesman said today. Larry LeBlanc, national president of the Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants’ Association, said he expects a conciliation officer will be named shortly and talks with the company to resume within two weeks. CP Air had offered the 1,300 attendants a two-year contract with a 12-per-cent increase in the first year and 10 per cent in the second. Under the previous contract, which expired July 31, flight attendants’ pay ranges from a starting rate of $16.03 an hour to senior rate after seven years of $22.92 an hour. Sears Correction The following items advertised in the B.C. Days flyer will not be availabale in Prince George: Page 20 — item B, Madras bedspreads, items F & G, Draperies, Item H Pris-cilas, Items K Shades. Items N & P, Chair Pads, Item G, Cushions, Item R, Throws and Shredded Foam. Sears apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause our customers. McCarthy assures foster parents VANCOUVER (CP) - B.C. Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy has assured white foster parents caring for native Indian children there will not be a ‘‘mass pickup” of their children because of an agreement she reached with the Spallumcheen band. After Indians from all over the province protested against apprehending Indian children and placing them in white foster homes, McCarthy signed an agreement with the band Thursday by which it would ‘‘assume responsibility and control over their own children.” Speaking Friday at the annual meeting of the B.C. Federation of Foster Parent Association, McCarthy said her agreement with the band doesn’t interfere with the agreement foster parents have with the ministry and will not disrupt the stability of foster homes. McCarthy said band chief Wayne Christian told her the Vernon-area band doesn’t want to upset the lives of Indian children now in white foster homes, but wants the opportunity to explain Indian culture to them. McCarthy praised the foster parents for opening their hearts to Indian children and added: ‘‘You don’t need the added concern that you will have a disruptive future with that child.” The new arrangement means the band will take full responsibility for placing its children in foster homes and providing the social services they need, McCarthy said. The province BRIEFLY Pro-lifers auestion octors SURREY, B.C. (CP) -Surrey-Delta Pro-Life Society has sent a questionnaire to every doctor in Surrey and Delta asking them whether they have performed an abortion. Dr. Don Fransen, chief of staff at Surrey Memorial Hospital, said Friday he has advised doctors to ignore the questionnaire. The questionnaire was sent out nearly a month before the Nov. 15 deadline set by Surrey Memorial medical staff for the hospital board to rescind its decision banning abortions at the hospital, or for Health Minister Rafe Mair to intervene. Hearings set VANCOUVER (CP) - Two separate preliminary hearings were set Friday for Stephen LeClair when he appeared briefly in provincial court on charges of murdering a Richmond, B.C., policeman and three persons at a downtown Vancouver beer parlor. A four-day hearing starting Nov. 4, was set for Richmond provincial court for LeClair, 34, charged in that suburb with the first-degree murder of RCMP Constable Tom Agar and the attempted murder of Constable Wayne Hanniman. Cloud over B.C. VANCOUVER (CP) - A huge cloud of radioactive debris, from an atmospheric nuclear test over China on Thursday, passed over southern B.C. and Washington State on Sunday. John Thomas, of the weather office here, said the cloud covered thousands of square kilometres and was at an altitude of more than 10,000 metres. Thomas said the concentration of radioactivity was low and posed no threat. Youth Employment Skills (HI Thil course is designed for teenagers who have left the regular school system and are experiencing difficulties in their adjustment to the world of work. It fosters personal development ond provides young people with a chance to plan for a future based upon their abilities and aptitudes. Job search techniques include two weeks of actual work experience. If you are between 15 and 18 and have been out of the regular school system for at least six months and are experiencing difficulties in finding or holding a job this course could be for you. 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