Valentine gift MLA HITS REGIONAL BOARD Tourism policy Fort George MLA Howard Lloyd has accused the FraserFort George Regional District of taking "a narrow-minded attitude" toward tourist promotion. Lloyd, who Is also a regional district director, made the charge Thursday after the regional district refused to reconsider an earlier decision to withdraw financial support from the Yellow head 14 Travel Association and also decided not to support a proposal to establish a tourist association under the auspices of the Northern Development Council. "I can't understand," Lloyd said, "why this board is taking such a narrow-minded attitude when tourism is so important to our economy." He told the directors they Flu nearly an epidemic The flu sickness affecting many Prince George residents is growing to epidemic proportions, say local doctors. Doctors say a large number of people here have the flu, many have it but refuse to treat it seriously and many, many more are going to get it. Dr. Tully Chambers, spokesman for the Prince George Medical Society, said today that doctors are unable to do anything to halt the onslaught of the sickness. If a person gets headaches. "are making a big mistake" in not providing any funds this year for Yellow head 16. "That organization has been doing a good Job of promoting tourism and all of us in this area have benefitted from its work." Lloyd said he Is less enthusiastic about a proposal by the Peace River-Llard Regional District that a tourist association be set up by the Northern Development Council, which consists of the five northern B.C. regional districts. But he said he feels it is "extremely important that there be local and regional input of some kind in the area of tourism. "Surely we want to have some control at the local level. feels dizzy, has aches and pains and generally feels unwell, be had the flu and should stay home, Dr. Chambers said. People who ignore the symptoms and attempt to continue day-to-day activities will only prolong their sickness he said. Older people, people with chronic chest problems, young children snd babies should take special care aad see a doctor if there's any signs of respiratory troubles, the doctor said. Otherwise people should Killed this week O Killed this year 2 Injured this week 2 Injured this year 30 TODAY CARnagt in the Prince George area Karla McLean 9, left, and Sue Marchildon, 9, Grade 4 students at Wildwood Elementary School, just finished counting pennies collected by fellow students from kindergarten to Grade 7 The students want to help build a new museum in Prince George and the collection totalled 21,595 pennies when the girls stopped counting, At Valentine's Day, "Pennies for the Past" express the students' love for their hometown, Prince George, rapped We don't want Victoria calling all the shots." Lloyd got little support, however, and his criticism drew blunt rebuttals from two of his colleagues from Prince George city council, directors Harold Moffat and Lome McCuish. Moffat said he sees "no reason why the people in the tourist business shouldn't be using their own money for this kind of activity." McCuish agreed, saying "regional districts should not be financially supporting the tourist industry it's as simple as that." He added that "it should also be made clear to the Northern Development Council that we don't have any money in our budget for tourist promotion." save their doctor the trouble having to tell them the obvious treatment for the sickness. Victims should stay in bed, get rest, drink plenty of fluids, take aspirin to keep fever down and stay warm. Other than staying away from people who have the flu, there's little that people who have escaped so far can do. If that ravenous little flu bug decides to attack you, all you can do is give up and stay in bed. Ti CMwa phMa by Dan MUm fa SAL MINEO Sal Mineo stabbed to death LOS ANGELES lAPl -Actor Sal Mineo, known as "The Switchblade Kid" for his many film roles as a teen-age tough, was stabbed to death outside his Hollywood apartment house Thursday night, authorities said. Witnesses told police they heard screams and saw a man with long, blonde hair running from the alley where Mineo was killed. Neighbors found the 37-year-old actor lying face-up in a pool of blood about 20 feet from a parking area behind his apartment, police said. He had been stabbed in the chest. FEATURED INSIDE J A The Vancouver Canucks have beaten the Montreal Canadiens in a National Hockey League regular season game for the first time since they joined the league in 1970. Page 14. An estimated 30,000 Guatemalan youngsters are orphans a bitter aftermath of a killer earthquake. Page 5. Margaret Trudeau had some advice for women Thursday. She told them to "stop bitching." and get out and work beside men. Page 2, Business, 8; Classified. 28-38; Comics. 21; Editorial, 5; Entertainment, 17-21 ; Home and Family, 22, Weddings, 23 ; Horoscopes, 17; International, 5; Local and Provincial, 3, 8, 16; National, 2; Sports, 13-13; Television, 18. CANADIAN VICTORY Gold for Kathy SEE ALSO PAGE 13 INNSUKUCK (CP) - Eighteen-year-old Kathy Kreiner of Timmins. Ont., gave Canada its first Olympic gold medal In eight years today at the Winter Olympics, wi nning the women's giant slalom in a stunning upset victory over favored Hosl Mlt termaier of West Germany. Miss Kreiner's win in one minute 29.13 seconds smashed the West German girl's hopes of an unprecedented three wins in the Alpine skiing events after she earlier won the downhill and slalom. It was the first gold for Canada since Nancy Greene Ilaine brought home the gold medal in the giant slalom and added a silver in the slalom at the 1968 Olympics at Grenoble. France. The crowd surrounding the slopes for today's run was definitely pro-Mittermaier, but Kathy, who was the first to race over the course, said she had no regrets about depriving Miss Mittermaier of a chance at Olympic history. "No regrets at all, Miss Kreiner said. "I think there was some room in there for me." The Citizen Friday, February 13, 1976 WAGE CONTROLS DEFIED Irving fined $125,000 OTTAWA (CP) - The federal anti-inflation administrator ordered a New Brunswick company Friday to pay the government $125,000 for openly defying the government's selective pay and price controls program. In his first ruling, administrator Donald Tansley ordered Irving Pulp and Taper Ltd., of Saint John, N.B.. to follow an anti-Inflation board decision by reducing a 23.8-per-cent wage increase to 14 per cent, He also ordered the company to pay the government $100,000 representing the excess portion of the wages that Irving had been paying its 500 employees since Dec. 19, when the board made its decision. In addition, Mr. Tansley used his powers under the legislation to Impose a penalty of $25,C30 because the company had knowingly contravened the board's decision. The board's decision had no legal force but contra ventio n of the administrator's riding is punishable by unlimited fines and up to five years in Jail. The company has said it contravened the board's decision in order to allow its employees an avenue of appeal which can only come after a ruling by the administrator Whelan's support seen Federal agriculture minister Eugene Whelan will be going to bat for local egg producers, says Savo Kovachich, owner of Tabor Poultry Farm, He said that in a two-hour meeting in Prince Rupert Thursday between Whelan, Kovachich and Skeena MLA Cyril Shelford, Whelan expressed surprise at the amount of levies egg producers are paying to the Canadian Egg Marketing Association (CEMA). Egg producers pay six and one-quarter cents to CEMA and three-quarters of a cent to the B.C. Egg Marketing Board for every dozen eggs produced. Local egg producers are paying more than $20,000 a year to CEMA in levies. "He (Whelan) didn't realize the levies were so high and that our quota was so low in this area," said Kovachich. Kovachich said Whelan did not have a clear picture of the problems local egg producers were having in getting a la rger quota. "He agreed that we couldn't make any money paying such large levies with such a small quota," said Kovachich. Local producers are allowed to produce 200 cases of efig! a week under the quota system applied by the provincial egg marketing board. Kovachich also said that Whelan told them he would talk to the provincial egg board and try and get a larger quota for them. Local producers provide about 20 per cent of the eggs consumed in the area. new schools have been planned for more than two years. Bosnich said the new College Heights school will accommodate about 300 pupils and will ease the load of the current College Heights school which has about 600 pupils and 20 classrooms. The new school has been allotted $809,000. Edgewood Elementary will take some of the current student population from North Nechako Elementary School which currently has about 550 pupils. Edgewood has been estimated at $753,000. $3. 05m for new The provincial treasury board approved a $3.05 million expenditure for construction of four elementary schools in Prince George Thursday. The projects will go to tender and are expected to be completed by September. The board approved construction of College Heights II, Heritage South Elementary, Edgewood Elementary and Hart Highlands Elementary. The new buildings will relieve overcrowded classrooms in four other district schools. Don Bosnich, director of elementary education, said the Vol. 20; No. 31 THE' WEATHER) A heavy snowfall was expected for Prince George today as storm clouds moved into the Central Interior trom the Pacific Ocean. The storm should move south by Saturday, how ev er, leaving mixed clouds and sunshine in this area, KATHY KREINER: on shoulders Prince George, British Columbia However, the case could not go to the administrator until the guides had been contravened. The administrator's ruling can now be appealed to the federal cabinet or to an anti-inflation appeal tribunal. The government appointed an interim tribunal earlier In the day. Revenue Minister Bud Cullen, who announced the administrator's ruling in the Commons, later told reporters that it was "not entirely fair" that Irving has to pay a penalty in order to appeal a board decision. He referred to a recent statement by Finance Minister Donald Macdonald, who said the anti-inflation legislation may be amended to allow direct appeals of board decisions. The Irving contract which had provided for a 23.8-per-cent increase retroactive to May 1, 1975 was reached without a strike in contrast to lengthy .strikes elsewhere in the industry. About 25,000 pulp workers were on strike in Eastern Canada last month. "I think he has a clear picture of the situation now, and with Mr. Shelford's backing maybe something will get done," said Kovachich. Meanwhile another local producer, Arnold Link, and Prince George lawyer Dave Jen-Kins, are at a hearing today in Vancouver with the B C. Marketing Board and are appealing the board's October decision that local egg men must remain within the jurisdiction of the B.C. Egg Marketing Board. The hearing is another battle in the long war between five northern egg producers and the provincial egg marketing board. The farmers want to supply eggs to the local market and charge Lower Mainland eggs are being dumped in this area. schools Hart Highlands Elementary School, $686,000, will be a small school but will relieve the overload at Austin Road, said Bosnich. Heritage South Elementary School will ease crowding at the Highglen Elementary School at a cost of (809.000. Bosnich said the schools in the four areas are currently being used to their maximum because "there's steady growth in each of these areas." The money allotted school district 57 is part of $12.2 million approved for education in the province Thursday, teammate Jim Hunter'i 15' Copy; Mildest winter since '31 Prince George is experiencing its mildest winter In 45 years. A weather office spokesman said today temperatures have not been so high for the season since the winter of 1930-1931 w hen the cold snap waited until March to grip the city. The same could happen this year but so far this winter temperatures have ranged from -27C tin November) to IOC, he said. During January when temperatures are usually far below freezing they were frequently above the zero mark on the Celsius scale, he said. "But weird things can happen; it's not uncommon to get -32C in March." The warm conditions have resulted in a heavier-than-average snowfall, he said. The snowfall to date for this season is 239.4 cm and the normal amount in most years is about 180 cm. "More Pacilic storms have crossed the Central Interior bringing warm air and snow," said the spokesman. "The cold spell we usue'ly get In January didn't come this year." ( NOW HEAR THIS) - On page 16 of today's Citizen is a photo of a hospital donation made by the local Colonel Sander's Kentuckey Fried Chicken franchiser, El Kant ho Take Home, The name of the El Kancho representative in the photo? Owen Cackler. Honest. Prince George and district residents with any questions about provincial government programs art being invited to use the new Ask B.C. telephone information service. This service is using a computerized system to provide immediate answers to "almost any question about provincial government programs", according to Ask B C. director John Olsen. Residents of Prince George and the surrounding area can reach one of the 10 Ask B.C. information officers without charge by dialing 1 12-800 663 3451 between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. From the mouths of babes - a five-year-old brought her daddy a valentine today addressed to Al. " Why didn't you put to Daddy on it?" asked her father "1 didn't know now to spell it," was her frank reply.