COME ON OVER TO UNCLE BENS Meat ill ui your empty br bottles we need them lh It IIW 1 nol pvW d o d wrd b Iquol Conhol loo J wb tb Gvwnnnii I Inlt Colvmb a Vol 13 No 160 knocking the NDP is trying to use mass psychology to con vince the voters that the social lsts are the only ones who care 20 Pages BC election countdown NDP predicts victory with 1 0 days to poll By Bob McConnell Southam News Services VANCOUVER - With 10 das to go in the BC election campaign NDP strategists are flatl predicting victor Their version of the numbers game gives them not onl a mi minority � nority government but a clear majorlt But thej are not the onl people plajlng the numbers game and the dont like all the numbers The NDP organizers say they will hold their present 17 seats and add at least 11 Rossland Trail Vancouver South Delta Richmond Alberni Vancouver Centre two seats Skeena tsel son C reston Shuswap and Prince Rupert All these seats would be taken from the government Three are held by cabinet ministers Edu cation Minister Don Brothers In Rossland Trail Health Minister Ralph Loffmark in Vancouver South and Hlghas Minister Wesley Black In tselson Creston Prince Rupert another of the NDPs sure seats is held b William Muria speaker of the house The absence of any opinion polls forbidden during the cam campaign � paign by the BC Elections Act doesnt shake the NDPs confi dence Sure we cant take a proper s u r v e said Dr Walter oung a political scientist at the University of B C who has worked for the NDP in the last three provincial elections But weve still got three strong indicators One is the re reports � ports from our provincial organ izers who have been checking ridings around the province Another is the reaction we get during part leader Tom enough to talk to the people face-to-face Weve had to counteract this We have far more signs In this election than weve had in the past and in some ridings we have as many as the NDP or more We have constituencies in this election where there are 400 or 500 people knocking on doors for us Weve never had this be before � fore While they are moving to meet the NDP tactics the Socreds feel that the saturation campaign may have reached the point of dimin diminishing � ishing returns Driediger also complains about the NDPs strategy of concen concentrating � trating on a relatively small number of ridings while leaving their candidates In the rest The Citizen Forecast -More clouds showers Bergers provincial campaign tour and the third consists of a number of factors that didnt hold true In previous elections As far as we can tell the job Is done theres nothing Pre mler Bennett can do now The NDP organizers say the amount of volunteer campaign labor the have is far greater than in previous elections So is their part membership now at 18000 and the amount of money they are receiving In donations In Prince Rupert for exam pie sas Young we have two canvassers for ever poll and we got them In two days Two das before Berger ar arrived � rived in Rupert on his campaign tour we didnt even have a com mlttee room there But Tom drew the biggest political audi audience � ence Prince Rupert has ever seen 450 people Public response far stronger this election The public response to the NDP campaign has also been far stronger than in the past organizers sa Our canvassers are finding that people who were listed as uncommitted In the last election are declaring themselves in our favor right from the start oung sas Weve had a far stronger demand for our signs than in the past To get their support the NDP Is reling on their usual people power door knocking campaign Major advertising apart from lawn signs Is at a minimum Young sas the parts news newspaper � paper advertising budget is onl 9000 and the TV budget onl 2000 The campaign has been bol stered by a number of highly experienced organizers from outside the province I hey in elude Gordon Brigden the par ts chief Ontario organizer and Robert McKenzIe also from On tarlo Manitoba has sent Sel Burioughs and David Crowe while Gerry Pout Macdomld and William Allen have come from Saskatchewan Two NDP members of the Ontario legisla ture Fred oung and Reg Gls borne are also helping out The part Is concentrating Its forces on 17 seats the 11 it now feels sure of and Cariboo Dewdne North Vancouver-Se-mour Mackenzie Alberni and Saanich Each of these ridings is ex expected � pected to have at least three complete canvasses of every home The names and ad dresses of certain and possible NDP voters will be marked On election day the party or- ganlzatlon will do Its best to wheedle or harangue each of these people to the polls While the NDP organizers have no trouble adding up to 55 some of the other numbers In the election game bother them The would have to make huge gains to take some of the seats they are so confident of Black and Brothers for example both more than doubled the totals of their NDP opponents In the 19GC election Another number that NDP ex experts � perts dont know what to do with Is the 278000 new names that have swollen the provincial voters list from 874000 in 19CG to 1152000 this ear Young ad mlts the NDP doesnt kiow who the new people are but are hop hoping � ing a good proportion of them will be younger voters who will support the NDP Socreds see diminishing returns While the NDP is confident Social Credit League president George Drlediger is cautious but he scoffs at the NDPs cer taint Driediger says the last elec election � tion proved to the Scoreds that the NDP campaign tactics are a force to be reckoned with and Social Credit has changed its own methods to meet the challenge from the left Drlediger gives the impres impression � sion that Social Credit really wants nothing more than to run old fashioned best-of-Britlsh-luck campaigns and resents being forced to come to the NDPs terms With all their signs and door- of the province to put up only token campaigns Like the NDP the Socreds are claiming unprecedented volun volunteer � teer support in their campaign They also have a large adver advertising � tising budget While NDP leader Berger and Liberal leader Pat McGeer start started � ed their campaigns early the Socreds big guns are just start starting � ing to open up Premier Bennett hit the campaign trail In ear earnest � nest only last week and the cabinet members have so far stuck to organizing their own ridings We think the other two par parties � ties will peak before the elec election � tion Driediger says Youll be hearing a lot more from Social Credit In the next 10 days While spokesmen for the other parties are vague about the vot voters � ers list increase Driediger thinks it could help Social Credit Who will the Liberal vote hurt Much of it consists of new Im Immigrants � migrants to the province either from other parts of Canada or other countries he sas These people came to BC to share In its prosperltv he sas and there not likel to turn their back on it b rejecting the gov government � ernment What is giving both the So creds and the NDP some worr although the wont willlngl admit It is the Liberals cam campaign � paign Premier Bennett at least ex pected to pick up strength from the Liberals who had onl 20 per cent of the vote and six seats in the 19CC election But McGeer s energetic campaign campaigning � ing In the Interior is generall conceded to be good enough to Ilarley Robertson the NDP candidate in Skeena has been suspended as principal of Kitl mats largest school After a 2l ear teaching careei some of it in Prince George he was suspended b the local school board without written reason He was principal of Kltimat Ju Junior � nior Secondary a school with 40 teachers Robertson is a for former � mer president of the BC Teach Teachers � ers Federation Mysterious light in the sk seen In the west from places like Sherwood Court perplexed a number of Prince George residents Sunday night There doesnt seem to be an explana explanation � tion for it jet A Registered voters who plan to be out of the Fort George riding on election day August 27 may cast their ballots at an ad advance � vance jioll arranged Thursday Friday and Saturday in the Civic hold the Liberal vote and per perhaps � haps even increase it The question for the other parties is simple who would provide a Liberal increase The NDP sas it would have to come from Social Credit while the Socreds reverse the choice Its one question nobod can answer but malnl because B C seems to have a fairl sub stantlal protest vote that Isnt particularly choos which ideol og it follows as long as It isnt Social Credit In the 19C3 election for exam example � ple when former federal justice minister Davie Fulton came back to tr to lead the Conserv Conservatives � atives out of the wilderness the Socreds actually gained votes and the Tor votes apparently Centre Hours are 1 to 9 pm each day A few more deputy returning officers are still needed for the election due mainly to the large increase In voters said returning officer Alex Clark today Persons Interested preferably with ex experience � perience should contact Clark at 5C3 5220 Number of voters in the riding rose some CO per cent to 26000 as compar compared � ed with 10000 In the Sep September � tember 19CC provincial elec election � tion Lawyer is helping law W student as the campaign of Tex Enemark Liberal can candidate � didate in Fort George gets un underway � derway City lawyer Allan Bate has been named Enemarks cam campaign � paign manager in his bid to take the seat from Incumbent MLA Ray Wllliston on Aug 27 Ene Enemark � mark is hunting votes while on a summer break from law stu studies � dies at UDC came at the expense of the NDP In that kind of situation onl the ver confident or the ver foolhard make predictions K8H WllllSTON Angry crowd meets Socred KAMLOOPS Special - Ray Wllliston Fort George MLA and Lands and Forests Minister In the last Social Credit government was picketed and heckled on the question of pollution when he spoke in Kamloops on Friday No other pulp mills in Canada have to meet the pollution speci specifications � fications they have to meet here in BC Wllliston told an au dience of about 200 Is this government going to enforce this 7 a heckler shouted They are enforced rljht here In Kamloops Wllliston replied PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA MONDAY AUGUST 18 1969 Phone 562 2441 WEAK THAT 00000 MILE F VATQUHQMILE DATS UN Oil CO OCPVirF Phftn gathers after three killed Two infant girls and a 26-year-old man died in a two car accident at the junction of Buckhorn Road and Highway 97 12 miles south of here early Sunday The accident also sent an infant boy and a man and woman to hospital at 210 am The driver of one car a 31 -year-old man from Prince George is in fan condition in hospital today with head injuries and cuts A Prince George family was in the other car They are believed to have lived on Buckhorn Road near the scene of the accident The husband is dead and the wife believed to be in her teens or early twenties is in hospital with a broken neck and serious injuries to back and chest Police are withholding names pending the noti notification � fication of relatives in Squamish and on the Van Vancouver � couver Island A boy about one year old is in seiious condi condition � tion with head injuries and a girl was dead on ar arrival � rival at hospital They were taken there in a private car The accident early Sunday morning brings to six the number of dead in traffic accidents in the Prince George area in less than a week A three car accident 32 miles west on Highway 16 Wednesday took the lives of a man and a family of thiee A driver of one of the two tow trucks at the accident said the crowd was drunken and disorderly and was a definite nuisance to the police and am ambulance � bulance people He said cars were parked along Buckhorn Road and the highway and about 30 people gathered to watch of which Id say 20 were in the way and bothersome One man obstructed an ambulance attendant and had to be ordered off by the police he said And a juvenile got in the way of a tow tiuck and also had to be ordered away The tow truck driver estimated damage to the two vehicles at more than 1000 He said they were both written off by their insurance companies Murderous hurricane lashes Southern US GULFPORT Miss AP -Hurricane Camllle raked the Mississippi area along the Gulf of Mexico with murderous winds and lashing seas early today leaving at least 15 dead In Us wide path of devastation The weather bureau at Jack Jackson � son the state capital 200 miles north listed 10 dead In Blloxl Words replacing bombs in Ulster BELFAST CP - Hot words largely replaced bullets and gasoline bombs as riot shocked Northern Ireland today confront confronted � ed the shambles left by waves of sectarian violence There were allegations and de denials � nials about the possible role of the Irish Republican Army in last weeks outbreaks that left eight dead and hundreds In Injured � jured Gerry Titt a leading opposi tion spokesman in the Ulster Par Parliament � liament denounced Prime Min Minister � ister James Chichester Clarks Sunday charge that the under underground � ground IRA which seeks to reunify Ireland The charges by Chichester Clark were followed today by further reports In pro-government circles about alleged LRA plans dating as far back as 1966 for stirring up trouble in Ulster Exhibition crowds hit record 30000 The 57th annual Prince George Exhibition was a record smash smashing � ing year in all but one cate category � gory horseraclng More than 30000 persons at attended � tended the four day annual civic showing despite continuously threatening weather compared to 14000 In 1968 Friday and Saturday were the two largest attendance days as 11243 showed up Friday and 9958 turned out Saturday for the Exhibition and the Northern In Nature waited record 563 days terior Loggers Sports Day The Friday figure also Includes an approximate head count of 7000 children who were admit admitted � ted free during Chlldiens Day the actual paid count was 4243 adults Horseracing fans fared well at the three race days and bet a total of 27000 for 19 races held from Thursday to Saturday The first race day Wednesday was washed out by rain Continued page 3 4 I ls 105 BRUNSWICK 553 0581 71 rt r t2 00 PER MONTH lOcCopy BYCARRItR BH5fti tjJkLLLLLHrHfrt Bfc- tt s A xHHtiwS IV mBmmmU it lBB I IBM VIWMBt r ltlllllllllBB HH9SBBVII1Hh1i1i1 lliiirii MM Three persons died in collision south of Prince George early Sunday Car in background carried the victims and collided with the vehicle at front of photograph -Milne photo Rowdy early morning crowd two dead in Gulfport two dead In Moss Point and one at Ocean Springs Blloxl Is 15 miles east of Gulfport while Moss Point lies between Blxoll and Mobile Ala Red Cross headquarters In Washington said reports from Its field units indicated 70000 persons were housed in 287shel ters Sunday In Mississippi Loui Louisiana � siana and Alabama The storm one of the worst in years with winds of 190 miles an hour slammed Into the Missis Mississippi � sippi coast during the night after shipping across Loulsla nas low marshlands and skirt skirting � ing New Orleans There was still no report of Its effects in the tldelands area of Louisiana where communications were al almost � most non existent Gulfport and Biloxi also diffl cult to reach by telephone were without electricity gas or drink drinking � ing water Downtown Gulfport was in shambles The hurricane continued Its trek across central Mississippi today Winds of 100 mles am hour lashed Hattlesburg while Columbia reported utility poles down and trees uprooted It looks pretty awful to me a Columbia policeman said The storm spent most of Its fury on the long strip of white beach along the gulf coast from Gulfport to Blloxl Its eye moved Inland before midnight Sunday and sent waves soaring over the coastal highway and destroyed 40 of the 250 buildings at a big naval base north of Gulfport Blloxl Mayor Daniel Guice es estimated � timated damages during the night at 10000000 to BIIonI Biaibergs new heart finally surrenders CAPE TOWN AP - Dr Christian N Barnard said today Dr Philip Blaiberg the worlds longest surviving heart transplant patient died because his new heart would not overcome the process of rejection Barnard told a news con conference � ference at Cape Town Univer University � sity School of Medicine the day after his patient died that results of an autopsy perfor performed � med within hours of the C0-year-old retired dentists death were not yet known but final analysis would show that the cause of his death was rejection We always felt the heart transplants were not a cure but a palliative he said Eventually the transplanted heart will bedamagedomuch by rejection that It will not be able to function any more In Blaiberg s case his car cardiac � diac team slowed the rejection process for 563 days The death certificate said Blaiberg died of heart failure brought on by failure of his kidneys and pneumonia The certificate was signed by Dr Marius Barnard youn younger � ger brother of Dr Christ iaan Barnard the pioneer trans transplant � plant surgeon who gave Blai Blaiberg � berg his new heart 19 12 months ago on Jan 2 1968 The younger Barnard also Is a member of the GrooteSchuur Hospital heart transplant team The certificate did not indi indicate � cate whether any rejection of the heart took place Blaiberg who was 60 died Sunday at 740 pm An autop autopsy � sy was performed afterward but its results were not im immediately � mediately disclosed Blalbergs wife and their daughter Jill were with him when the end came A rel relative � ative said he was conscious until the last few moments and suffered no pain Dr Barnard said after learning of Blalbergs death I am afraid I have nothing tc say That is all Barnard has been ill with influenza and was unable tc see his famous patient before his death foi fear of infecting him A total of 142 persons have received heart transplants since Barnard nude medical history by implanting a heait In Louis Washkansky on Dec 3 1967 Of these 37 patients still are alive including two of the five heart leclpients op operated � erated on by Barnard Determined to make the most of his new lease on life Blaiberg diove his own cat swam legulaily