2 — The Prince George Citizen — Tuesday. August 11. 1987 Provincial WOLF KILL FIGHT VOWED Direction and speed of system motion A AAA Cold front Rain or snow showers Warm front ’ Upper level front A^A^ a Stationary front (Temperatures are maximum and minimum for past 24 hours) Weather Immediate Prince George area: The forecast calls for sunny skies today with cloudy periods, isolated afternoon showers with a risk of thunder showers. Today’s high is expected to be near 20 with a low near 6. Wednesday should be sunny with a few cloudy periods and high near 21. The chance of precipitation is near 30 per cent today, 20 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Wednesday. Monday’s high was 20, the overnight low was 1, there was no rain and 12.4 hours of sunshine. A year ago today the high was 29, the low was 12, there was no rain and 14.1 hours of sunshine. Sunset today is at 8:50 p.m. and sunrise Wednesday is at 5:44 a.m. Cariboo, Prince George: Sunny with increasing cloud this afternoon, a few afternoon showers or thundershowers. Highs near 20. Tonight, a few clouds, isolated showers. Lows near 6. Wednesday, sunny. Highs near 21. Probability of precipitation 30 per cent, 20 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Wednesday. Bulkley Valley-The Lakes: Sunny with increasing cloud this afternoon, a few afternoon showers or thundershowers. Highs near 21. Tonight, a few clouds, isolated showers. Lows near 7. Wednesday, mainly sunny. Highs near 22. Probability of precipitation 30 per cent, 20 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Wednesday. Parsnip: Mainly cloudy, showers and thundershowers in a few localities. Highs near 18. Tonight, a few clouds, isolated showers. Lows near 7. Wednesday, sunny. Highs near 21. Probability of precipitation 60 per cent, 20 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Wednesday. Greater Vancouver: Sunny with patchy morning cloud. Highs near 21. Tonight, mainly clear. Lows near 14. Wednesday, mainly sunny. Highs near 21. Probability of precipitation 10 per cent, 10 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Wednesday. Greater Victoria: Sunny with patchy morning cloud. Highs near 21. Tonight, clear with cloudy periods. Lows near 12. Wednesday, mainly sunny. Highs near 21. Probability of precipitation 10 per cent, 10 per cent tonight and 10 Rer cent Wednesday. Thompson, Okanagan: Mainly sunny. Highs near 25. Tonight, mainly clear. Lows 12 to 15. Wednesday, mainly sunny. Highs near 26. Probability of precipitation 10 per cent, 10 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Wednesday. Columbia: Cloudy with sunny periods, isolated showers and afternoon thundershowers. Highs near 24. Tonight, a few clouds, isolated showers. Lows near 14. Wednesday, mainly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers. Highs near 24. Probability of precipitation 20 per cent, 20 per cent tonight and 20 per cent Wednesday. Kootenays: Cloudy with sunny periods, isolated showers and afternoon thundershowers. Highs near 23. Tonight, a few clouds. Lows near 8. Wednesday, mainly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers. Highs near 23. Probability of precipitation 20 per cent, 10 per cent tonight and 20 per cent Wednesday. Chilcotin: Sunny. Highs near 21. Tonight, clear. Lows near 5. Wednesday, sunny. Highs near 22. Probability of precipitation 10 per cent, 10 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Wednesday Lower Fraser Valley: Morning cloud, mainly sunny this afternoon. Highs near 22. Tonight, mainly clear. Lows near 12. Williams Lake 23 7 000.0 North Battleford 15 10003.8 Temperatures Prince George 20 2 000.0 Winnipeg 29 18020 8 Mackenzie 19 2000.0 Brandon 27 16024.8 Fort St. John 16 6 000.8 Churchill 14 6 000.0 TORONTO (CP) High-low Fort Nelson 19 10006.8 The Pas 15 9 023 6 temperatures and precipitation Dease Lake 19 2 000.8 Kenora 27 20 000.0 in millimetres Tor the previous 24 Peace River 13 6001.1 Thunder Bay 20 12 000 0 hours issued today by the Whitehorse 20 6 000 0 North Bay 22 8000.0 weather office: Dawson City 19 0000.0 Toronto 26 14 000.0 Vancouver 20 14000.4 Yellowknife 19 9000.0 Ottawa 28 12 000 2 Victoria 19 21 000.0 Inuvik 9 5 000.0 Montreal 24 15000.0 Comox 21 11000.0 Resolute Bay 9 3 000.0 Fredericton 25 15 000.0 Port Hardy 22 8000 0 Eureka 6 2 000 0 Charlottetown 2 15002.2 Prince Rupert 18 12 000.0 Alert 5 1000.0 Halifax 21 17000.0 Stewart Misg Cambridge Bay 5 4013.4 St. John's 21 10000 0 Terrace 26 11 000.0 Calgary 14 4 013.0 Seattle 19 15000.0 Penticton 26 12 000.0 Edmonton 14 6004 0 Spokane 28 n ooo.o Kamloops 25 11000.0 Lethbridge 16 7011.2 Portland 21 17000.0 Abbotsford 19 12 000.0 Medicine Hat 25 9 003.4 San Francisco 22 14000.0 Cranbrook 28 10 000.4 Swift Current 26 10000.0 Los Angeles 23 18000.0 Revelstoke 24 9 008.4 Regina 31 13 001 6 Las Vegas 41 29 000.0 Blue River Misg Saskatoon 20 12 003.8 Reno 33 12000 0 Puntzi Mountain 19 1000.0 Prince Albert 14 9015.6 Phoenix 40 24005.1 VANCOUVER (CP) — Wolf experts and enviromen-talists«are angry that the British Columbia government has decided to allow hunters to shoot and trap wolves in the Flathead area in the southeastern tip of the province. Environment ministry officials say the wolves have been slaughtering moose and elk in the area and must be cut back before the game is gone. But professors from the University of Montana, who have been studying the wolves in the area that skirts the Montana-B.C. border, say the government is giv-ing-in to the whining of hunters. . “We understand what the B.C. department of wildlife is Oojng,” said Dan Pletscher, assistant professor with the Wolf Ecology Project at the University of Montana in Missoula. ‘‘They’re trying to appease the hunters who com- plain that they have to walk too far before they see a moose or elk.” The hunting season which runs from Sept. 10 to Feb. 28 will allow licensed hunters to shoot or trap wolves in the area south of Cranbrook for the first time in 20 years. “Hunters have a bag-limit of one wolf, so they can only shoot one, and trappers have an open-ended bag limit,” said Anna Wolterson-Straus. wildlife biologist for the environment ministry. Paul Watson of Friends of the Wolf said his group will be getting in touch with U.S.-based environmental groups to start an anti-tourism campaign. “Project Wolf in Seattle'has already, started a tourist boycott, and if B.C. officials thought that Friends of the Wolf caused them problems in the Peace River area, then they should brace themselves for the protests that will arise from groups all over the western U.S,” he said. Return without penalties offered to three wrestlers by DON RAMSDEN BURNABY. B.C. (CP) - Three Bulgarian wrestlers who slipped out a bedroom window in the middle of the night were still missing Monday although there was no firm indication the trio planned, to defect. The head coach of the visiting Bulgarian squad urged the men to return, saying they would not be punished. “Everybody is very upset,” Din- , ko Petrov’ said through an interpreter. “They are very worried about the boys’ lives.” Petrov said he would talk to the men — aged 19 and 20 — “like a father to his children.” A spokesman for the External Affairs Department said the agency had not heard from the men. but added they would be treated like any other refugees if they turned up at a department office. “It’s an RCMP matter (for now),” said Phil Barter, refusing to comment on rumors the men were planning to defect. “We haven’t heard anything from anybody.” The athletes — Kassimir Kras-tev, 20, Angel Angelov, 19, and Jov-ko Djitlarski, 20 — were here to participate in the world junior wrestling championships. Knife killed soldier VICTORIA (CP) — A coroner has determined that a young soldier died on the weekend from a knife wound to the heart after a freak accident during a hand-to-hand combat demonstration. An information officer for Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt said coroner Daryl Stephens determined Pte. Joesph Gilchrist died of the wound Saturday during the final performance of the week-long Esquimalt Tattoo. The 20-year-old private was taking part in a combat demonstration in which from six to 10 soldiers separate into pairs. Using a small bayonet and attack knife,' one solider plays the attacker while the other defends. “In this kind of exercise ... the knives are usually blunted,” information officer Mike Ferland said after the accident. Ferland said Monday a board of inquiry would be held under Brig.-Gen. G. Reay of Calgary. “Until the board of inquiry is complete it would not be prudent to comment or speculate on the findings of the board,” Ferland added. Gilchrist was immediately attended to by a military doctor in the audie'nce and taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Gilchrist’s father, John, said earlier he did not hold the military responsible. - “Accidents can happen anywhere,” the elder Gilchrist said. “He died doing what he wanted, in the military.” Principal FROM PAGE freezing the B.C. assets of three Principal companies. McBeth referred calls from the press to a spokesman in Edmonton who could not be reached. Similarly, no spokesman from the Finance and Corporate Relations Ministry in Victoria was available this morning to provide the public with advice on the Principal affair. Bill Crozman, a retired Prince George railwayman, hps his life savings of 39 years invested with Principal. He’s one of about 1,200 clients from central and northern B.C. served by the office here. After a visit to the local branch here, Crozman said he was assured by McBeth that most of his investments, including, a registered retirement savings plan and “venture funds” are safe. Crozman said he thought Principal’s filing for bankruptcy in Alberta “is a good move on their part, at least if they do file for bankruptcy you have a chance of getting back your initial investment even if you lose the interest on it. “I don’t feel it’s the company as much as it is the times, and the uncertainty of the whole damn country,” he said of Principal’s difficulties. Crozman said he was going fishing today to take his mind off the whole affair. There .were other disgruntled investors lined up at Principal’s office today. “I wish there was a head office here, I’d make heads roll,” one man said while waiting to learn about his mutual fund and RSP accounts. They left their room at the British Columbia Institute of Technology early Sunday and tournament chairman Hank Lyth said they took all their personal possessions. Each was believed to have between $50 and $100 in'cash. "We have them listed'officially as missing persons.” RCMP Staff Sgt. Ga"ry Schauer said in a tele- ^ •phone interview. “The fact these* three people don't speak English shouldn't make it too difficult to find them.” However, Schaurer did not indicate there was an active search for the men. The athletes, part of a 17-member contingent from the Communist country that arrived in this Vancouver suburb Friday, were issued visitor’s visas. The RCMP said the visas expire Sept. 11. After that they would become illegal aliens. Lyth said participants are free Jo move about the city. It was up to team leaders and coaches to keep track of them. “I imagine (the Bulgarians) are keeping a somewhat closer check now,.” Lyth added. A Bulgarian team spokesman, speaking earlier through an interpreter, said the wrestlers were in their room when it was checked at 2 a.m. Sunday. When they failed to respond to a wake-up call at 7 a.m., officials found their room empty and a window open. Lyth said the missing men are “reasonably short, stocky, very healthy, athletic-looking individuals.” “The Bulgarian team would lfke them to return.” he added, “and I would like them to compete.” Twenty-four teams from around the world are participating in the wrestling competition this week. Other Communist countries taking part include the Soviet Union. East Germany, Poland and Hungary.. A second group of 12 wrestlers from Bulgaria was to arrive tonight. 'Full share of funds for B.C.7 VANCOUVER (CP) - British Columbia has been assured it will not be short-changed in spending of the new $1.2-billion Western Diversification Fund, Intergovernmental Relations Minister Stephen Rogers said Monday. Rogers made the comment following a meeting of the federal-B.C. council of ministers. Premier Bill Vander Zalm paid an unexpected visit to the meeting to emphasize he wants B.C. to get its fair share of the fund. As he went into the meeting, Varider Zalm said he did not want money from the fund to affect the prov-* ince’s share of other federal funding. “We're pleased with the results,” Rogers said at a news conference after meeting with the ministers, including Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Bill McKnight, who is reponsible for the diversification fund. Rogers said money from the fund will not be drawn from funds already budgeted for spending in B.C. Concerns have been raised since the announcement of the the fund's creation a week ago that it represented only a reallocation of funds already available under other federal programs. 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YOU WILL NOT BE DENTIFIED OR REQUIRED TO TESTIFY! crime Mi |§ SltNWRS q_ “ ancnymliy & cash reward* w Solve a crime... Lucky tickets picked If you weren’t phoned to come and pick up your motorhome from the Prince George Knights Society you'll have to wait another year for your chance. This year’s first prize winner Pauline MacDonald, of Fort Fraser, won the 23-foot Citation valued at about $40,000. She plans to either sell or mortgage the recreation ve: hide to finance a trip to her nephew’s wedding at Buckingham Palace, said committee chairman Al Collie. According to Collie, the nephew is a soldier who is marrying a staff member at the palace. Second prize winner Bob Smith, of Hudson Hope, has simpler plans for his 21-foot RV which is valued at about $37,000. He plans to keep it and "go fishing four months of the year,” Collie said. Mel Reser of Prince George won the 20-foot RV. Reser received two tickets on the lottery as payment for helping his son and daughter-in-law paint their 'home in Prince George. The annual lottery raised about $45,000 to support the Columbus Community Centre and local charities, according to Collie. Winners of the Prince George Knights Society motorhome lottery are, from left, third prize winner Mel Reser and family members who receive the keys from Al Collie, committee-chairman; second prize winner Bob Smith and family members receiving the keys from ticket sales representative Fern Dery, and Paulijie MacDonald who receives the keys to the first prize from ticket sales representative Bob McLean. See Story right. Citizen photo by Dave Milne 564-TIPS