LANCE
HARRIS
Watch
out,
Bobby
Fischer
.
.
.
JOHN
LEW
CRAIG
KREKLWICH
Chess
is
the
greatest
thing
since
peanut
butter
to
these
young
players
concentrating
their
way
to
the
Prince
George
district
junior
chess
championships.
About
140
Grades
1
to
7
pupils
from
all
district
elementary
schools
have
been
competing
in
DANNY
SMITH
CRAIG
LOUIE
tournaments
in
preparation
for
the
championship
games
March
20.
The
school
district
has
been
divided
into
four
zones
and
winners
are
picked
from
each
zone
for
the
final
match.
chum
photo,
by
iv
mum
VICTIM
OF
'JUDGES'
SCANDAL
Drury
offers
to
resign
POLARIS
MINI-PROJCCT
Salmon
Valley
steel
mill?
Polaris
steel
of
Prince
George
is
applying
for
a
480-acre
steel
mill
site
in
the
Salmon
Valley.
Polaris
Steel
president
Dick
Furby
said
today
his
company
has
applied
to
the
Fraser-Fort
George
regional
district
for
a
temporary
reserve
on
Crown
land
about
25
miles
north
of
here.
The
regional
district
will
discuss
the
matter
at
a
committee
meeting
here
March
25.
The
application
asks
that
the
land,
which
borders
the
Salmon
and
Fraser
rivers,
be
reserved
for
six
months.
Furby
said
the
purpose
of
the
request
is
to
allow
Polaris
Steel
to
determine
the
suitability
of
the
land
for
construction
of
a
"mini"
steel
mill.
Polaris
is
actively
seeking
about
$10
million
to
build
a
steel
mill
with
an
annual
production
capacity
of
about
500,000
tons.
The
mill
would
employ
about
300
workers
with
local
markets
absorbing
steel
production.
Furby
said
about
200
of
the
480
acres
would
actually
be
used
for
construction
of
the
mill's
facilities.
He
said
the
company
is
anxious
to
hear
public
opinion
on
the
company's
desire
to
build
a
steel
mill
in
that
area.
Supreme
Court
asked
to
rule
on
'guidelines'
OTTAWA
(CP)
-
The
government
moved
to
clear
a
path
for
appeals
against
its
selective
pay
and
price
controls
Thursday
and
at
the
same
time
asked
the
Supreme
Court
of
Canada
to
rule
on
the
constitutional
validity
of
the
anti-inflation
legislation.
Amendments
to
the
legislation
tabled
in
the
Commons
would
clear
the
way
for
both
companies
and
unions
to
appeal
ultimately
to
the
federal
court
when
they
are
dissatisfied
with
anti-inflation
board
decisions
limiting
increases
in
wages,
prices,
profits
or
dividends.
The
changes
would
remove
the
much-criticized
provision
which
requires
companies
and
unions
to
defy
the
controls
and
risk
a
penalty
in
order
to
qualify
for
an
appeal.
Unions
also
would
be
put
on
equal
footing
with
employers
in
appealing
rollbacks
of
wage
increases
under
the
amendments,
tabled
by
Finance
Minister
Donald
Macdonald.
Meanwhile,
Justice
Minister
Ron
Basford
announced
the
Anti-Inflation
Act
is
being
referred
to
the
Supreme
Court
for
a
ruling
on
whether
it
is
valid
under
powers
of
the
federal
government.
OTTAWA
(Cl)
Prime
Minister
Trudeau
said
Friday
he
will
not
accept
the
resignation
submitted
by
Works
Minister
C.
M.
Drury.
Mr.
Trudeau
also
ruled
out
a
public
I
nqulry
Into
the
intervention
with
a
Quebec
judge
that
led
to
Mr.
Drury
tender-Ing
his
resignation
earlier
Friday.
OTTAWA
(CP)
-
Works
Minister
C.M.
(Bud)
Drury
tendered
his
resignation
today,
but
left
It
to
Prime
Minister
Trudeau
and
the
cabinet
to
decide
whether
it
should
be
accepted.
He
would
have
a
duty
to
consider
continuingonlf
the
prime
minister
refuses
the
resignation,
Mr.
Drury
told
reporters
after
announcing
his
offer
to
resign
in
the
Commons.
The
resignation
was
offered
with
an
apology
for
telephoning
a
Quebec
Superior
Court
judge
during
a
contempt
hearing
against
cabinet
colleague
Andre
Ouellet.
Mr.
Drury,
63,
has
been
a
minister
in
successive
governments
since
1963
and
ranks
at
the
top
of
the
cabinet
in
seniority.
"I
very
much
regret
taking
the
action
I
did,"
Mr.
Drury,
a
senior
minister
for
almost
13
years,
told
a
quiet,
tense
Commons.
"I
sincerely
and
deeply
apologize.
..."
He
said
he
has
tendered
his
resignation
to
Prime
Minister
Trudeau.
Joe
Clark,
Progressive
Conservative
leader,
said
immediately
that
the
former
army
brigadier
had
taken
the
honorable
course
in
resigning.
But
he
renewed
a
call
for
a
full
public
inquiry
into
the
allegations.
Mr.
Clark
said
the
opposition
still
will
insist
on
determining
the
exact
nature
of
the
involvement
in
the
affair
of
the
minis-
DRURY,
ter
of
consumer
and
corporate
affairs,
Andre
Ouellet,
It
was
Mr.
Ouellet
who
was
facing
a
contempt
of
court
charge
brought
by
Mr.
Justice
Kenneth
Mackay
of
the
Quebec
Superior
Court
for
remarks
that
Mr.
Ouellet
had
made
about
a
Mackay
court
verdict
finding
three
sugar
companies
not
guilty
of
price
collusion
in
Eastern
Canada.
Mr.
Ouellet
was
subsequently
convicted
in
the
contempt
case.
Mr.
Drury
had
said
earlier
that
he
made
a
call
to
Mr.
Justice
James
Hugesson,
hearing
the
Ouellet
contempt
case,
but
declined
to
say
what
he
had
talked
about.
However,
the
Commons
today
was
given
this
version
of
the
conversation
by
a
report
by
Mr.
Justice
Hugesson.
The
report
was
made
by
Mr.
Justice
Hugesson
to
the
chief
justice
of
the
Quebec
Superior
Court,
Justice
Jules
Deschenes
who
had
been
asked
to
Investigate
allegations
of
cabinet
intrusion
into
court
business.
Mr.
Justice
Hugesson
said
of
his
conversation
with
Mr.
Drury:
"The
conversation
dealt
with
two
aspects
of
the
Ouellet
case:
One,
whether
it
would
be
possible
for
Mr.
Ouellet
to
make
a
formal
apology
and
thereby
bring
the
proceedings
to
an
end
and,
two,
the
view
Mr.
Drury
felt
was
being
expressed
in
some
quarters
in
Ottawa
that
the
proceedings
against
Mr.
Ouellet
were
in
some
way
a
ganging
up
of
the
English-speaking
establishment
against
prominently-placed
French-speaking
persons."
In
other
Commons
developments
today
on
the
same
lines,
Jean
Chretien,
treasury
board
president,
said
he
is
apologizing
for
having
called
a
Quebec
Superior
Court
Judge
in
1969
to
find
out
when
a
bankruptcy
case
would
be
decided.
Regional
district
backs
egg
producers
in
battle
by
STEVE
WHIPP
Citizen
staff
reporter
The
Fraser-Fort
George
Regional
District
has
Joined
the
fight
against
the
B.C.
Egg
Marketing
Board
in
an
attempt
to
help
obtain
a
higher
egg
production
quota
for
northern
producers.
At
a
regional
district
meeting
Thursday,
directors
passed
a
motion
urging
federal
and
provincial
agencies
to
allow
northern
producers
to
supply
eggs
to
a
larger
portion
of
the
local
market.
The
regional
district
will
send
letters
to
provincial
and
federal
egg
marketing
boards,
to
provincial
and
federal
agriculture
ministers
and
to
local
MLA
Howard
Lloyd
"requesting
the
right
be
given
to
northern
egg
producers
to
competitively
supply
the
northern
B.C.
egg
market
and
to
have
autonomy
of
its
affairs
within
the
framework
of
the
provincial
egg
board."
The
regional
district
is
the
second
pressure
group
in
a
month
to
become
involved
in
the
northern
egg
producers'
fight
for
higher
production
quotas.
In
February
the
Prince
George
Chamber
of
Commerce
threw
its
support
behind
the
egg
men
arid
Monday
demanded
provincial
Agriculture
Minister
Don
Phillips
hold
a
public
hearing
here
into
the
plight
of
the
producers.
And
today
the
Prince
George
and
District
Labor
Council
also,
contributed
its
support
to
the
egg
producers.
The
labor
council
said
today
it
was
shocked
by
Agriculture
Minister
Don
Phillips'
statement
today
he
would
not
intervene
in
the
dispute
between
the
northern
egg
producers
and
the
B.C.
Egg
Marketing
Board.
"This
shows
the
Socred
government
is
leaving
the
fate
of
the
local
producers
to
the
conglomerate
producers
of
the
Lower
Mainland
who
control
the
board.
The
northern
producers
can
expect
no
mercy
from
the
greedy,
market-hungry
mass
egg
producers
at
the
coast,"
council
spokesman
Howard
Webb
said.
The
council
urges
Prince
George
and
area
residents
to
bring
pressure
for
fair
play
by
demanding
local
eggs
from
their
retail
outlet
when
buying
eggs.
In
a
report
to
the
regional
district
board,
the
director
for
the
Mud
River
Area
C
Harold
Ebert.
said
requests
by
the
producers
to
supply
the
northern
market
with
eggs
have
met
with
negative
response
by
the
B.C.
Egg
Marketing
Board.
The
report
goes
on
to
say
that
when
the
board
was
formed
in
1967
there
were
COO
egg
producers
in
B.C.
and
there
was
to
be
no
charge
for
quotas.
At
present
there
are
240
registered
producers
and
they
pay
the
marketing
board
two-thirds
of
a
cent
for
every
dozen
eggs
they
produce.
Ebert's
report
also
says
the
province
was
divided
Into
three
areas
and
the
provincial
government
Intended
each
area
to
become
self
sufficient
to
meet
local
demands
as
soon
as
possible.
Arnold
Link,
spokesman
for
egg
producers
and
owner
of
Chiiako
Farms
Ltd.
told
directors
present
at
Thursday's
meeting
the
six
northern
producers
fill
about
20
per
cent
of
the
local
market
demand.
The
remainder
comes
from
Lower
Mainland
producers.
"In
1966
there
were
twice
as
many
chickens
producing
eggs
in
this
area
as
there
are
now
and
we
were
close
then
to
meeting
market
demands,
but
since
then
the
population
in
this
area
has
increased
300
per
cent
and
production
hasn't
increased,"
said
Link.
He
told
directors
that
when
a
producer
settles
in
an
area
he
does
so
to
supply
it
with
the
needs
of
the
market.
"We're
not
asking
to
have
100
per
cent
of
the
market.
We
haven't
got
the
facilities
to
do
that,
It
would
take
time
reach
a
high
production
rate,"
said
Link.
Northern
egg
producers
have
been
battling
with
the
provincial
egg
board
to
increased
quotas
for
about
five
years.
The
quota
for
each
of
the
six
producers
set
by
the
egg
board,
is
about
130
cases
a
week
(30
dozen
eggs
a
case),
The
egg
marketing
board
offered
the
producers
a
quota
increase
to
200
cases
a
week
each
but
they
refused
because
the
Increase
was
not
sufficient
enough
to
meet
local
demands,
In
1974
the
northern
producers
refused
to
recognize
the
provincial
egg
marketing
board
and
stopped
payment
on
all
levies
to
the
board.
In
February
of
last
year
a
B.C.
Supreme
Court
judge
ordered
the
producers
to
pay
the
provincial
egg
marketing
board
$11,248,43
in
back
levies.
The
producers
have
thus
far
refused
to
pay
the
back
levies
and
as
a
result
have
had
their
licences
taken
away
by
the
board.
However
the
northern
egg
men
are
still
producing
and
no
one
has
refused
to
buy
the
eggs.
The
B.C.
Marketing
Board
has
twice
refused
to
allow
the
producers
to
break
away
from
the
egg
marketing
board.
Link,
said
Lower
Mainland
producers
are
operating
at
85
per
cent
of
their
production
quotas
because
of
the
large
surplus
of
eggs.
He
said
Lower
Mainland
eggs
are
dumped
into
the
Okanagan
as
well
as
the
Northern
Interior
and
that
Okanagan
producers
are
shipping
eggs
as
far
north
as
Quesnel
in
order
to
find
a
market.
Link
also
told
the
directors
Lower
Mainland
eggs
are
inferior
in
quality
to
those
produced
here.
An
article
in
the
February
1975
edition
of
the
Canada
Pout-tryman
states
"Fraser
Valley
produces
far
more
undergrade
eggs
than
anywhere
else
in
British
Collumbia
or
the
rest
of
Canada."
When
asked
by
director
Mayor
Harold
Moffat
if
the
producers
wanted
the
marketing
board
dissolved,
Link
replied
"no."
"We
don't
think
it
Is
necessary
to
dissolve
the
board
but
the
power
to
put
a
producer
out
of
business
should
be
taken
away.
We
will
not
recognize
the
board
in
its
present
form,"
Link
told
the
directors.
c
TODAY
CARnag
In
the
Prince
George
Killed
this
week
O
Killed
this
year
3
Injured
this
week
3
Injured
this
year
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FEATURED
INSIDE
)
9
Toronto
police
seized
heroin
valued
at
$5
million
in
a
series
of
three
raids.
Page
2.
Two
hooded
gunmen
burst
into
a
Mexican
prison,
freeing
-11
Americans
who
fled
across
the
Rio
Grande
to
the
U.S.
Page
5.
The
Spruce
Kings
start
Saturday
and
the
Mohawks
Tuesday,
as
finals
begin
for
the
Peace
Cariboo
Junior
Hockey
League
and
the
Cariboo
Hockey
League.
Page
13.
Business,
8;
Classified,
26-37;
Comics,
21;
Editorial,
4;
Entertainment,
17-21;
Church,
22;
Garden
column,
25;
Home
and
Family,
39;
Horoscope,
17;
International,
5;
Local
and
Provincial,
3,
25;
National,
2;
Sports,
13-15;
Television,
14.
THE
WEATHER
Cloudy
skies
and
occasional
snow
flurries
were
expected
today
as
a
weather
system
moved
into
the
Central
Interior
from
the
west
coast.
The
system
was
expected
to
pass
through
the
area
leaving
clouds
and
a
few
sunny
periods
for
Saturday,
The
highs
today
and
Saturday,
2C;
the
low
tonight,
-10C.
Thursday's
high
was
0C;
the
overnight
low
was
-3C,
and
1.5
cm
of
snow
fell
overnight
bringing
the
season's
total
to
281.3
The
high
for
March
12.
1975
was
1C;
the
low
was
-12C.
J
NOW
HEAR
THIS
J
Representatives
of
the
B.C.
Federation
of
Telephone
Workers
have
stepped
up
their
campaign
against
the
opening
of
the
new
telephone
mart
in
the
Pine
Centre
by
mailing
protest
circulars
to
some
Prince
George
residents.
But
they
seem
to
be
a
bit
mixed
up
about
their
cities,
A
circular
recieved
by
one
local
resident
Wednesday
outlined
the
alleged
dangers
to
the
public
of
plug-in
phones
and
warned:
"It
could
happen
to
you,
right
here
in
Kamloops."
Fifty
students
at
Kelly
Road
Junior
Secondary
School
are
fasting
for
30
hours
this
weekend
to
aid
the
world's
hungry.
The
students
are
raising
money
through
pledges
for
their
fast,
which
lasts
from
1
p.m.
today
to
7
p.m,
Saturday,
They
will
turn
the
funds
over
to
World
Vision
of
Canada,
a
Christian
humanitarian
agency
that
is
operating
a
"Help
the
Hungry"
program
In
41
developing
countries.
A
two-year-old
boy
was
determined
not
to
be
bothered
by
the
crowds
when
he
wandered
from
his
mother's
side
in
the
Pine
Centre
Mall.
The
youngster
walked
through
the
throng
of
opening
day
customers,
climbed
aboard
a
toy
pedal
tractor
with
an
attached
wagon
and
pedalled
from
a
store,
I
le
then
made
his
way
through
the
mall
stopping
at
various
new
shops
and
loading
up
his
tractor
with
goodies
that
attracted
his
toddler's
eye.
Merchants
watched
in
amazement
as
he
made
his
rounds
and
nobody
yelled
"stop,
thief".
Eventually
his
mother
was
located
and
the
goods
returned.