Goes
down
well
with
friends
Sayfor
CARLING
PILSENER
BEER
Vol
12
No
10
City
Bonds
Move
Slowly
The
city
has
appealed
for
help
In
moving
1027000
worth
of
debentures
still
on
hand
from
1966
and
1967
Issues
The
appeal
came
today
when
city
comptroller
Chester
Jeffery
reported
to
councils
general
purposes
committee
It
would
be
unthinkable
for
the
city
to
go
to
market
with
further
Issues
until
outstanding
debentures
are
sold
He
said
Wood
Gundy
Securi
Securities
�
ties
Ltd
still
has
67000
worth
of
debentures
from
a
776000
Issue
It
purchased
In
September
Rate
Is
7
5
per
cent
Pembertons
Securities
Ltd
has
32000
worth
left
of
a
725
per
cent
Issue
It
purchased
last
spring
As
well
said
Jeffery
there
are
270000
worth
from
a
1966
sanitary
sewer
Issue
500000
worth
from
the
1967
waterworks
Issue
and
257000
from
the
1967
sanitary
sewer
issue
still
to
be
Issued
and
sold
He
said
plans
were
to
market
the
first
two
In
the
spring
If
mar
market
�
ket
conditions
are
favorable
Jeffery
said
one
department
store
purchased
a
block
of
city
debentures
for
its
superannua
superannuation
�
tion
fund
and
he
has
asked
five
others
in
town
to
request
their
head
offices
to
consider
like
pur
purchases
�
chases
BRITISH
MADE
IN
PORTUGAL
LONDON
AP
-
T
shirts
printed
with
a
Union
Jack
and
the
slogan
Im
Backing
Brit
Britain
�
ain
are
among
Britains
latest
exports
and
soon
will
be
on
sale
here
They
sell
for
well
under
1
Orders
have
come
from
Bel
glum
France
Norway
Swe
den
Holla
id
and
the
Baha
Bahamas
�
mas
The
only
snag
Is
that
the
shirts
are
made
in
Portugal
I
regret
It
as
much
as
any
anybody
�
body
but
we
ust
cannot
get
a
British
T
shirt
which
will
give
us
the
same
quality
at
a
price
which
will
compare
ex
explained
�
plained
Alan
Conway
market
lng
director
of
Scott
Lester
the
London
wholesaler
in
volved
The
shirts
bear
the
double
credit
Made
in
Portugal
and
Printed
in
England
City
Seeks
Solicitor
City
Council
will
begin
adver
advertising
�
tising
this
week
for
a
full
time
city
solicitor
Council
approved
copy
of
an
advertisement
that
will
require
the
solicitor
be
on
deck
at
all
times
This
city
Is
big
enough
to
have
a
solicitor
of
its
own
said
Mayor
Garvin
Dezell
It
cant
be
a
part
time
Job
We
need
someone
we
can
talk
to
at
all
times
Solicitors
duty
is
handled
now
on
a
retainer
and
fee
basis
by
the
firm
of
Wilson
King
Baldwin
Scott
and
Roberts
City
manager
Arran
Thomson
said
the
city
last
year
paid
13637
and
several
other
cases
remain
to
be
billed
to
the
city
The
first
course
to
start
off
the
Adult
Education
Pro
Program
�
gram
this
week
is
Conversational
Chinese
the
Cantonese
dialect
which
Is
scheduled
for
7s3Q
pm
tonight
a
Bad
enough
for
pedestrians
w
trudlng
through
the
puddles
and
slush
caused
by
the
near
record
temperatures
over
the
weekend
without
having
to
put
up
with
cars
speeding
past
Sev
Several
�
eral
Irate
people
have
received
a
drenching
from
careless
motorists
who
dont
bother
slow
slowing
�
ing
down
on
water
covered
roads
So
to
save
dry
cleaning
bills
please
slow
down
until
the
tem
temperature
�
perature
drops
to
normal
And
whatever
became
of
the
natural
gas
flame
that
was
supposed
to
spring
eternal
from
rt
16
Pages
The
Citizen
The
Only
Daily
Paper
Serving
BCs
Third
Largest
Market
PRINCE
GEORGE
BRITISH
COLUMBIA
MONDAY
JANUARY
15
1968
His
Ji
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Premier
Bennett
returned
to
British
Col
Columbia
�
umbia
from
a
Palm
Springs
Calif
holiday
and
fired
back
at
opposition
critics
who
accused
himlnhis
absence
of
derelic
dereliction
�
tion
of
duty
Thats
just
normal
Mr
Bennett
said
in
an
Interview
Sun
Sunday
�
day
As
the
session
of
the
leg-
our
Centennial
fountain
Maybe
the
pilot
light
went
out
Tobogganing
is
a
childrens
pastime
One
groupof
adults
agree
after
gathering
on
a
slope
on
the
outskirts
of
the
city
Sun
Sunday
�
day
afternoon
By
the
end
of
a
sliding
session
on
a
small
hill
a
number
of
participants
ended
up
in
the
hospital
emergency
ward
Most
seriously
injured
were
Donna
Wright
with
a
crack
cracked
�
ed
lower
spine
Theresa
Veltch
with
a
broken
arm
and
Ray
Clark
with
a
cracked
finger
bone
The
score
also
Included
a
sprained
leg
a
cut
head
a
pair
of
broken
glasses
not
to
mention
a
desire
among
the
survivors
to
sit
on
soft
cushions
the
unanimous
decision
was
to
leave
It
to
the
kiddles
next
time
Snow
Sculpture
Abominable
Snowman
meet
Miss
Ingrid
Berglund
A
decidedly
non
abominable
Ingnd
gives
snowman
really
a
Jaycee
scuptured
bear
a
friendly
pat
in
front
of
City
Hall
Its
the
Jaycees
entry
in
their
Sno
Sense
ice
statue
contest
The
partly
finished
bear
was
born
Sunday
Ingrid
was
born
22
years
ago
and
lives
on
Maple
Street
Duffy
photo
HE
SNUBBED
CONFERENCES
Premier
Doesnt
Flap
At
Little
Flutter
islature
approaches
the
opposi
opposition
�
tion
birds
come
out
of
the
bush
and
start
to
make
a
little
flutter
a
little
noise
Bs
just
partisan
politics
and
is
to
be
expected
Mr
Bennett
was
replying
to
statements
last
week
by
Robert
Strachan
provincial
leader
of
the
New
Democratic
Party
and
Tag
Days
Remain
Without
Shotaun
City
Council
is
expected
to
go
along
with
a
general
purposes
committee
recommendation
that
tag
day
policy
remain
the
same
as
In
previous
years
despite
ob
objections
�
jections
by
Aid
Ron
Tweedie
Aid
Tweedie
resurrected
an
earlier
argument
that
funds
should
be
raised
under
the
aegis
of
one
single
organization
such
as
Community
Chest
rather
than
have
residents
confronted
by
tag
taggers
�
gers
and
canvassers
regularly
Aid
Tweedie
said
that
as
a
result
of
publicity
he
received
from
his
earlier
attempt
to
give
organizations
one
years
warning
that
tag
days
would
be
limited
he
received
many
supporting
tele
telephone
�
phone
calls
He
said
there
Is
a
group
work
working
�
ing
on
formation
of
a
Community
Chest
organization
Aid
Tweedie
said
he
felt
coun
council
�
cil
should
give
groups
a
nudge
toward
such
an
organization
by
limiting
tag
days
Discussion
was
sparked
by
a
request
from
the
Lions
club
for
its
usual
carnation
tag
day
Mothers
Day
weekend
Mayor
Garvin
Dezell
argued
that
people
have
the
right
to
re
fuse
to
be
tagged
He
said
that
tag
days
enable
organizations
to
tag
the
3000
to
4000
people
who
come
in
weekends
from
outside
the
city
They
dont
buttonhole
you
they
dont
use
a
shotgun
they
dont
do
anything
said
the
mayor
I
said
years
ago
that
if
there
was
a
tag
day
every
Satur
Saturday
�
day
I
wouldnt
mind
Ray
Perrault
the
provincial
Lib
Liberal
�
eral
Leader
Both
said
the
premier
should
have
been
attending
the
federal
provincial
finance
conference
in
Ottawa
rather
than
holidaying
In
the
California
sun
I
would
ask
the
citizens
of
BC
to
note
carefully
the
state
statements
�
ments
of
the
opposition
in
the
last
few
days
and
balance
them
against
the
throne
speech
said
Mr
Bennett
The
throne
speech
will
show
that
the
opposition
is
wrong
in
its
criticism
of
the
government
on
all
counts
Mr
Bennett
said
his
absence
from
last
weeks
conference
was
fully
justified
I
was
down
there
in
Novem
November
�
ber
at
the
annual
finance
minis
ministers
�
ters
meeting
he
said
There
was
nothing
new
to
be
discussed
at
this
meeting
They
are
calling
all
these
conferences
because
they
are
trying
to
show
that
they
are
doing
something
Its
a
straight
waste
of
public
money
BC
Unseasonably
Warm
Mercury
Skyrockets
VANCOUVER
CP
Flood
lng
and
snowslldes
followed
on
the
heels
of
unseasonably
warm
weather
that
moved
Into
most
of
British
Columbia
during
the
weekend
Temperatures
in
Vancouver
soared
to
56
degrees
Sunday
as
warm
moist
air
arrived
from
the
southwest
Cloudy
mild
wea
weather
�
ther
was
forecast
for
today
Vancouver
Island
was
hardest
hit
by
the
warm
weather
which
was
accompanied
in
that
area
by
a
steady
downpour
Saturday
and
Sunday
At
Duncan
storm
drains
over
flowed
and
a
torrent
of
water
swept
through
17
homes
Some
of
the
homes
were
left
without
heat
as
water
swamped
basement
furnaces
At
Chllllwack
in
the
Fraser
Valley
one
man
was
killed
and
two
men
were
Injured
when
a
mud
slide
attributed
to
the
warm
weather
rumbled
down
a
moun
tain
slope
hitting
a
house
The
Fraser
Canyon
stretch
of
the
TransCanada
Highway
north
east
of
Vancouver
was
reopened
to
traffic
Sunday
The
highway
had
been
closed
suite
Friday
night
following
a
series
of
slides
Highways
department
officials
said
a
yumlie
stretch
of
the
Northern
1
ransProvlncial
High
way
between
Terrace
and
Prince
Rupert
also
closed
Friday
due
to
slides
would
probably
be
reopened
today
A
thltd
highway
which
runs
north
from
the
Lower
Mainland
to
Pembei
ton
and
Whistler
Moun
Mountain
�
tain
was
closed
Sunday
after
noon
after
a
section
was
lnun
dated
with
ZV
feet
of
water
FLYING
ELEPHANTS
ARE
REAL
NHA
TRANG
South
Vietnam
Peuters
The
US
Army
Is
going
ahead
with
plans
to
para
chute
three
ton
bull
elephants
Into
a
South
Vietnamese
Jungle
village
US
military
officers
Sunday
confirmed
Operation
Baroom
and
claimed
It
will
be
the
first
time
an
elephant
will
make
a
parachute
Jump
The
giant
Jum
pers
will
be
strapped
down
on
Inflated
rubber
life
rafts
and
immobilized
with
the
experl
mental
drug
M
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Phone
562
2441
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ltd
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and
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RONTH
MORE
THAN
220
DEAD
IN
SICILY
Storm
Quake
Toll
Climbs
As
Weather
Runs
Rampant
PALERMO
Sicily
CP
A
catastrophic
wave
of
killer
earthquakes
smashed
across
the
western
tip
of
Sicily
today
and
police
said
more
than
220
per
persons
�
sons
were
killed
most
of
them
in
the
collapse
of
a
hospital
The
hospital
at
Montevago
collapsed
and
buried
200
persons
More
than
20
other
dead
were
counted
from
the
stricken
com
munities
near
Montevago
The
quake
was
the
worst
nat
ural
disaster
to
hit
Sicily
the
largest
and
most
populous
is
land
In
the
Mediterranean
since
an
earthquake
destroyed
Messina
in
1908
with
a
loss
of
75000
lives
Todays
quakes
ripped
across
a
mountainous
farming
region
of
Sicily
considered
to
be
the
stronghold
of
the
Mafia
At
least
half-a-dozen
towns
and
villages
were
wrecked
Hundreds
were
Injured
as
the
shocks
came
In
a
series
of
death
dealing
waves
Five
tremors
had
rocked
the
region
Sunday
and
at
least
five
more
came
today
starting
at
234
am
and
continuing
through
mid
day
The
disaster
plunged
western
Sicily
into
winter
misery
The
Italian
government
mounted
a
massive
relief
and
l
escue
operation
of
planes
ships
trucks
and
cars
to
get
medicine
blankets
food
and
tents
Into
the
disaster
zone
Hundreds
of
homeless
huddled
without
shelter
In
bone
chilling
cold
many
in
fields
where
snow
lay
four
Inches
deep
The
full
fury
of
the
quakes
struck
In
a
mountainous
trian
triangle
�
gle
roughly
halfway
between
the
north
and
south
coasts
of
Sic
ilys
western
end
Gibelllna
a
town
of
7000
In
habitants
was
destroyed
So
was
Montevago
a
town
of
3000
where
a
late
shock
razea
the
hospital
First
rescue
teams
Into
Gibelllna
said
they
saw
nothing
but
ruins
Refugees
from
Gibelllna
trudged
along
the
icy
road
away
from
their
ruined
town
seeking
shelter
Police
at
Trapani
at
the
wes
ternmost
tip
of
Sicily
said
they
had
received
word
from
police
at
Montevago
that
the
hospital
col
lapse
had
killed
200
persons
It
might
be
days
before
the
exact
number
of
deaths
be
comes
known
Emergency
teams
fought
over
blocked
and
9
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fi
INSIDE
TODAYS
CITIZEN
British
Prime
Minister
Wilson
above
faces
serious
cutbacks
this
next
week
ac
according
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cording
to
observers
eying
the
economic
situation
in
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12
ley
roads
to
reach
piles
of
de
brls
that
only
the
night
before
were
living
communities
Officials
said
the
disaster
could
have
been
even
worse
but
the
population
had
warning
be
fore
the
worst
of
the
days
quakes
struck
Already
nervous
from
the
earthquakes
of
the
day
before
thousands
fled
their
homes
im
immediately
�
mediately
after
the
tremors
started
The
second
quake
was
the
worst
Seismograph
stations
said
it
hit
at
Gibelllna
with
the
force
of
nine
points
on
the
10
point
Mercallie
scale
This
Is
strong
enough
to
cause
total
de
destruction
�
struction
of
buildings
The
first
quake
of
the
day
was
eight
points
sufficient
to
cause
partial
ruin
When
residents
fled
their
homes
they
huddled
out
in
the
fields
and
built
huge
bonfires
against
the
cold
Hurricane
Like
Blitz
Sacks
Scottish
Cities
GLASGOW
CP
A
hurri
cane
with
winds
up
to
134
miles
an
hour
roared
through
Scotland
today
killing
at
least
14
persons
and
leaving
parts
of
Glasgow
looking
like
the
wartime
days
of
the
blitz
Hundreds
of
persons
were
forced
to
flee
from
shuddering
homes
throughout
the
country
Several
of
the
Glasgow
vic
victims
�
tims
were
killed
by
smoke
stacks
and
roof
tiles
which
fell
into
streets
and
through
roofs
Police
dug
four
unidentified
female
bodies
from
the
rubble
of
one
smashed
tenement
At
least
100
persons
were
in
jured
here
In
Edinburgh
a
married
couple
were
killed
in
their
beds
by
masonry
which
crashed
through
the
ceiling
A
gust
of
134
mph
was
re
corded
at
Great
Dunfell
In
Scot
land
during
the
height
of
the
storms
Weathermen
said
it
was
the
highest
ever
recorded
Glasgow
ambulance
head
headquarters
�
quarters
said
more
persons
were
feared
trapped
under
the
debris
of
damaged
houses
Emergency
wards
In
all
city
hospitals
were
placed
on
full
alert
Record
Ice
Storms
Disrupt
Ontario
Danger
from
hundreds
of
fallen
power
lines
aftermath
of
what
city
Hydro
officials
said
was
probably
their
worst
Ice
storm
forced
Toronto
police
today
to
ask
parents
to
keep
their
children
Indoors
giving
them
a
holiday
from
school
Downed
wires
in
London
where
many
schools
are
without
heat
and
light
also
kept
many
children
from
schools
today
The
situations
illustrated
con
conditions
�
ditions
in
many
southern
On
Ontario
�
tario
centres
where
ice
snow
and
freezing
rain
Sunday
grounded
planes
caused
power
failures
and
telephone
disrup
disruptions
�
tions
and
threw
traffic
on
ice
glazed
roads
Into
chaos
Hardest
hit
were
London
and
Toronto
Police
asked
parents
to
keep
children
In
all
six
bor
boroughs
�
oughs
of
Metropolitan
Toronto
home
from
school
But
many
homes
because
of
power
breaks
were
without
heat
with
temperatures
in
the
high
20s
Public
transportation
except
for
the
subway
in
Toronto
was
almost
non
existent
with
trolley
lines
coated
with
ice
The
storm
also
hit
parts
of
eastern
Ontario
and
areas
as
far
north
as
southern
Georgian
Bay
Scores
of
emergency
crews
were
called
out
by
various
Hydro
commissions
but
the
task
of
repairing
fallen
lines
was
described
by
one
spokes
spokesman
�
man
as
tremendous
James
Stonehouse
Toronto
Hydros
night
manager
said
Its
probably
the
worst
ice
storm
Hydro
has
ever
had
to
cope
with
In
London
some
people
were
treated
at
hospitals
suffering
the
Initial
stages
of
carbon
mon
monoxide
�
oxide
poisoning
caused
when
barbecues
were
lighted
to
pro
vide
heat
A
L
Furanna
general
mana
ger
of
the
London
Public
Utlll
ties
Commission
said
the
storm
which
started
Saturday
evening
was
the
worst
in
20
years
Normal
Hydro
service
may
not
be
restored
in
some
areas
until
Tuesday
Until
then
peo
pie
will
have
to
heat
their
homes
as
best
they
can
An
electricity
power
cut
blacked
out
the
city
and
added
to
the
chaos
Its
like
the
blitz
we
have
never
had
a
day
like
it
said
a
Glasgow
police
spokesman
Two
women
and
a
five
year
old
child
were
killed
by
falling
masonry
in
Glasgow
Several
other
persons
were
reported
missing
In
a
partially
destroyed
Glasgow
tenement
The
citys
electric
train
com
muter
services
were
cut
be
because
�
cause
of
gale
damage
and
high
ways
were
blocked
by
fallen
trees
Outside
Glasgow
a
man
and
a
woman
were
killed
at
Green
Greenock
�
ock
as
the
hurricane
gusts
howled
in
Weather
departments
record
recorded
�
ed
winds
of
112
mph
at
Bell
Rock
near
St
Andrews
on
Scot
Scotlands
�
lands
east
coast
and
104
mp
h
at
Edinburgh
Winds
of
over
100
mph
in
Glasgow
ripped
off
a
new
grandstand
roof
at
Ibrox
soccer
stadium
home
of
Glasgow
Rangers
and
damaged
four
propeller
planes
at
Glasgows
Abbotsinch
Airport
Snow
Sleet
Rain
Cover
Central
US
NEW
YORK
AP
-
Snow
sleet
and
freezing
rain
covered
sections
of
the
US
from
north
northern
�
ern
Mississippi
and
Georgia
to
the
Great
Lakes
and
New
Eng
England
�
land
today
Schools
were
closed
In
areas
from
Illinois
to
Geor
gia
Tens
of
thousands
of
per
persons
�
sons
in
five
states
were
left
without
electricity
during
the
weekend
Weather
related
deaths
num
numbered
�
bered
46
for
the
weekend
Wind
Waves
Break
Ships
DAMASCUS
AP
-
Sea
storms
floods
and
blizzards
swept
ships
aground
blocked
road
and
rail
traffic
throughout
Syria
and
caused
millions
of
dollars
worth
of
damage
In
the
Syrian
port
of
Latakla
Sunday
Troops
and
helicopter
squads
were
called
Into
help
police
and
firemen
in
rescue
and
relief
op
operations
�
erations
In
Latakia
hit
by
45
foot
waves
The
waves
whipped
by
100-mlle-an
hour
winds
were
report
ed
to
have
destroyed
scores
of
seashore
coffee
houses
restaur
restaurants
�
ants
and
night
clubs
and
dam
damaged
�
aged
some
buildings
In
residen
residential
�
tial
areas
Many
buildings
were
evacuated
Highway
traffic
slowed
to
a
crawl
through
much
of
the
area
east
of
the
Mississippi
Major
roads
were
generally
ley
and
many
secondary
roads
were
Im
Impassable
�
passable
Residents
o
f
southeastern
Ohio
were
digging
out
of
17
inches
of
snow
that
fell
Sunday
and
in
western
West
Virginia
a
new
cover
of
11
Inches
of
snow
left
33
Inches
on
the
ground
The
weather
bureau
Issued
warnings
for
more
of
the
same
kind
of
weather
today
Heavy
snow
warnings
were
posted
for
northern
Maine
with
six
inches
or
more
of
snow
expected
Freezing
rain
warnings
were
issued
for
southern
Maine
Ver
Vermont
�
mont
New
Hampshire
north
northeastern
�
eastern
New
York
and
interior
sections
of
Massachusetts
Travellers
warnings
were
posted
for
most
of
the
area
from
southern
New
York
to
northeastern
Arkansas
and
northern
Mississippi
Gale
warnings
were
up
from
Eastport
Me
to
Block
Island
RI
and
locally
heavy
rain
sat
ruated
southern
New
England
early
today
Elsewhere
the
northwest
was
lashed
by
strong
winds
and
heavy
rain
today
from
Washing
ton
to
central
California
Sixteen
weekend
deaths
in
Ohio
were
attributed
to
the
weather
including
10
persons
who
died
after
shovelling
snow
Stranded
Men
Airlifted
From
Drifting
Oil
Rig
THE
HAGUE
CP
-
An
RAF
rescue
helicopter
plucked
22
men
from
the
British
oil
rig
Sea
Quest
today
after
a
hurri
hurricane
�
cane
had
left
the
rig
drifting
helples
ly
In
the
North
Sea
her
moorings
gone
The
rig
had
a
total
of
41
men
aboard
Nineteen
still
remained
on
the
huge
platform
The
captain
of
the
rig
said
there
was
no
Immediate
danger
unless
the
weather
worsened
again
Radio
messages
from
the
Sea
Quest
called
for
vessels
to
stand
by
and
said
It
had
lost
all
an
chors
The
Sea
Quest
later
radioed
there
was
no
Immediate
danger
There
Is
no
need
for
life
lifeboats
�
boats
or
aircraft
It
said
One
vessel
to
standby
would
be
nice
The
Sea
Quest
Js
a
three
legged
drilling
rle
built
In
Ire
land
The
position
of
the
rle
was
de
scribed
as
most
dangerous
by
a
spokesman
of
a
Rotterdam
Towing
Company
which
dls
patched
two
tugs
to
the
scene
about
100
miles
off
the
English
east
coast
Late
radio
reports
from
Sea
Quest
said
it
was
drifting
In
a
northeasterly
direction
with
all
nine
anchors
gone
amid
waves
up
to
35
feet
high
The
14400000
Sea
Quest
Is
owned
by
British
Petroleum
The
rig
was
working
on
a
test
well
when
the
storm
struck
Sea
Quests
sister
rig
Sea
Gem
capsized
in
a
winter
storm
Pec
26
1965
and
13
ofhercrew
of
32
were
killed
i