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Vol.
20;
No.
83
GOVT
REVEALS
NEW
ENERGY
POLICY
Prince
George
British
Columbia
Kmm2?J3l&-m
1
115.
Higher
gasoline
prices
urged
OTTAWA
(CP)
The
federal
government
said
Tuesday
energy
prices
must
increase
sharply
in
the
next
two
years
to
a
range
of
up
to
25
cents
a
gallon
for
gasoline
and
heating
fuel.
A
policy
statement
tabled
in
the
Commons
by
Energy
Minister
Alastair
Gillespie
reiterated
government's
belief
that
price
Increases
towards
world
levels
are
necessary
to
provide
exploration
money
for
the
oil
industry.
There
were
few
sharp
departures
from
a
policy
paper
presented
in
1973,
although
it
does
replace
earlier
government
goals
of
self-sufficiency
with
a
policy
of
self-reliance.
It
defines
self-reliance
as
reducing
dependence
on
foreign
suppliers
as
much
as
possible,
but
continuing
to
retain
some
oil
imports.
The
government
says
consumers
must
pay
more
to
make
Arctic
oil
and
natural
gas
as
well
as
synthetic
oil
sand
plants
worthwhile,
lessening
the
danger
of
dependence
on
other
countries
for
supplies.
"The
alternatives
are
energy
shortages
which
will
require
increasing
dependence
on
highcost,
insecure
oil
imports
or
rationing
available
supplies
among
Canadians,"
Mr.
Gillespie
said.
BIG
GIVEAWAY
Department
officials
declined
to
say
what
its
specific
price
targets
are
other
than
continuing
to
move
towards
world
prices.
But
a
forecast
of
supply
and
price,
which
the
officials
seem
to
support,
calls
for
an
increase
in
the
oil
price
to
$13
a
barrel
from
the
current
$8
by
1978.
A
$5
a
barrel
increase
would
add
25
cents
to
the
price
of
a
gallon
of
gasoline
or
home-heating
fuel.
The
new
policy
statement
came
down
one
week
before
a
meeting
of
provincial
premiers
with
Prime
Minister
Trudeau
to
negotiate
new
oil
prices
for
July
1.
They
are
looking
at
an
increase
of
$1.50
to
$2
a
barrel,
or
six
to
eight
cents
a
gallon.
Major
targets
outlined
by
the
government
included:
Moving
domestic
oil
prices
towards
world
levels
and
increasing
natural
gas
prices
"to
an
appropriate
competitive"
position
in
two
to
four
years;
Reducing
the
rate
of
energy
growth
over
the
next
10
years
to
less
than
3.5
per
cent
a
year
from
the
current
5.5
per
cent;
Reducing
net
dependence
on
imported
oil
by
1985
to
one-third
of
consumption,
compared
with
one-half
in
1975;
Maintaining
self-reliance
on
natural
gas
until
northern
Hen
party
confirmed
It's
official
the
big
chicken
giveaway
starts
Saturday
as
three
northern
egg
producers
begin
to
slaughter
or
donate
their
flocks.
Cy
Kovachich
told
The
Citizen
today
he
will
kill
or
give
away
2,000
chickens
Saturday,
9
a.m.
at
Tabor
Lake
Poultry
Farm
on
Giscome
Road.
Kovachich
said
Arnold
Link
on
Highway
16
will
slaughter
or
donate
2,000
chickens
the
following
Saturday
and
Veeken's
Poultry
Farm
will
do
the
same
May
15.
The
three
producers
are
staging
the
blood-letting
to
protest
not
being
permitted
to
grow
with
local
markets,
the
refusal
of
the
provincial
government
to
call
a
royal
com
mission
into
practices
of
the
B.C.
Egg
Marketing
Board,
and
the
refusal
of
the
board
to
give
northern
producers
equal
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representation
on
the
board
with
Lower
Mainland
producers,
Fort
George
MLA
Howard
Lloyd
told
The
Citizen
today
that
he
felt
the
compromise
offer
presented
by
producers
is
a
worthwhile
offer
and
he
"hoped
to
see
something
come
out
of
it."
Lloyd
said
he
will
pursue
the
matter
with
officials
in
Victoria
and
will
contact
the
marketing
board
to
try
and
resolve
a
settlement.
He
said
when
Okanagan
egg
producers
had
a
dispute
with
the
egg
board
a
number
of
years
ago,
they
received
a
reasonable
settlement
and
were
permitted
to
supply
local
market
demands.
'Keep
out'
publisher
tells
CRTC
Special
to
The
Citizen
TORONTO
-
The
Canadian
Radio-Television
and
Telecommunications
Commission
has
"no
right
at
all
interfering
with
the
editorial
opinion
of
the
media,"
Prince
George
Citizen
publisher
John
Evans
told
the
annual
meeting
of
the
International
Press
Institute
here
this
week.
Evans
made
the
statement
after
the
CRTC
asked
a
Montreal
radio
station
to
explain
its
campaign
against
Quebec's
controversial
language
bill.
The
CRTC
told
the
management
of
the
station
to
appear
before
the
commission
to
explain
what
it
called
lack
of
program
balance.
supplies
can
be
brought
on
stream
"under
acceptable
conditions;"
Doubling
exploration
and
development
spending
in
the
North
over
the
next
three
years
to
$700
million
annually
from
the
current
$350
million.
The
new
policy
came
under
Immediate
fire
in
the
Commons
from
opposition
spokesmen
and
outside
from
a
public
interest
group.
New
Democratic
energy
critic
T.C.
Douglas
(Nanaimo-Cowichan-The
Islands)
blasted
government
for
retreating
from
its
policy
of
self-sufficiency.
"If
this
is
self-reliance,
I'd
look
with
horror
at
any
policy
of
dependency,"
he
told
the
Commons.
Energy
Probe,
a
Torontobased
public
interest
group,
said
the
policy
lacks
both
imagination
and
efficiency.
It
was
a
waste
of
money
to
invest
in
costly
conventional
sources
of
energy
when
the
government
itself
admits
that
within
20
years
the
country
will
have
to
turn
to
non-renewable
sources
such
as
solar,
wind
and
tidal
power,
the
group
said.
Those
sources
should
get
more
money
immediately.
Hospital
safe
for
awhile
by
JAN-UDO
WENZEL
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
The
Prince
George
Regional
Hospital
may
be
spared
a
strike
by
its
non-medical
employees
in
the
current
dispute
between
the
Hospital
Employees
Union
and
the
B.C.
Hospital
Association.
A
union
spokesman
in
Vancouver
said
today
the
union
will
concentrate
its
initial
strike
action
in
the
Lower
Mainland.
"The
PGRH
will
not
be
among
the
first
hospitals
to
go
on
strike.
There
may
not
be
a
strike
at
all,
but
one
cannot
see
too
far
into
the
future,"
the
spokesman
said.
The
400
local
union
members
here
have
not
taken
a
strike
Bennett's
boys
'political
pickpockets'
by
NICK
HILLS'
Southam
New
Services
VANCOUVER
-
The
Bennett
gov
ernment,
in
its
unremitting
determination
to
run
a
pay-as-you-go
administration,
is
beginning
to
get
the
reputation
of
a
political
pickpocket.
Having
been
hit
by
massive
tax
increases
in
the
budget
brought
down
in
March,
British
Columbians
now
find
they
are
having
to
cope
with
the
highest
cost-of-living
increases
in
the
country
and
largely
generated
by
the
actions
of
their
own
Social
Credit
government.
In
this
city
last
month,
the
consumer
price
index
rose
a
whopping
2.4
per
cent
over
February.
If
that
sort
of
thing
went
on
for
a
year,
the
annual
increase
would
be
more
than
25
per
cent
compared
with
the
current
national
yearly
rate
of
nine
per
cent.
For
the
past
two
years,
this
has
been
apart
from
llonolulu-the
most
expenlve
city
in
North
NEWS
ANALYSIS
America.
And
the
gap
between
Vancouver
and
other
Canadian
urban
centres
seems
to
be
growing
rather
than
lessening,
Over
the
past
12
months,
Vancouver's
living
costs
went
up
11.3
per
cent.
The
next
most
expensive
city
was
booming
Calgary,
but
at
10.3
percent,
The
Socred
government,
somewhat
stunned
by
the
new
CPI
figures,
is
now
starting
to
play
politics
with
prices
in
order
to
give
the
impression
it
is
not
responsible
for
what
is
happening,
Itafe
Mair,
the
minister
of
consumer
services,
has
suggested
it
may
be
necessary
to
re-instate
the
price
freeze
first
introduced
by
the
NDP
last
fall
and
dropped
by
the
Bennett
government
earlier
this
spring,
D
Mr.
Mair
talks
vaguely
about
unjustified
food-price
increases
and
a
rise
in
the
cost
of
other
staples.
In
fact,
he
is
being
particularly
misleading
in
blaming
the
private
sector
when
it
is
the
government
itself
which
is
the
prime
villain.
An
analysis
of
the
2.4
per
cent
Increase
has
revealed
that
transportation
accounted
for
21.
per
cent
of
the
rise
and
guess
what
that
was;
yes,
those
huge
auto
insurance
premiums
instituted
by
Victoria
to
get
rid
of
the
Insurance
Corporation
of
British
Columbia's
deficit.
Food
actually
contributed
only
0
09
per
cent
to
the
rise,
and
clothing
another
0
06
per
cent.
Mr.
Mair
told
a
nominating
meeting
for
the
upcoming
Vancouver
East
by
election
:"
We
are
ready
to
put
on
a
treeze
if
necessary
and
it
looks
as
if
it
may
be,"
Responded
a
Vancouver
company
executive;-
"If
you
consider
where
that
statement
was
made,
it
begins
to
make
sense.
The
Socreds
are
pushing
hard
in
Vancouver
East
and
a
promised
freeze
on
food
and
clothing
would
score
some
political
points."
Although
the
insurance
premium
increases
will
not
appear
again
in
the
consumer
price
index,
there
are
other
cost
rises
brought
about
by
the
Bennett
administration
which
will
show
up
next
month.
The
two
per
cent
increase
in
the
provincial
sales
tax,
contained
in
the
March
budget,
is
now
running
through
the
DC
economy.
UBC
economics,
professor
John
Cragg
predicts
it
could
result
in,
a
general
cost-of-living
jump
of
more
than
one
per
cent.
It
seems
clear
that
Premier
Bill
Bennett'i
determination
to
balance
all
the
books
is
posing
serious
political
problems.
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vote.
In
Vancouver,
a
strike
vote
will
be
taken
Thursday
at
the
Vancouver
General
Hospital.
Union
members
and
officials
are
angry
because
the
association
rejected
a
recommended
settlement
by
industrial
inquiry
commissioner
D.R.
Blair.
"We
do
not
want
any
rollback
of
the
Blair
report
terms,"
the
spokesman
said.
The
association
and
the
union
are
meeting
today
with
mediator
Ed
Sims,
but
the
spokesman
said
the
union
is
past
the
stage
of
negotiating
and
he
could
not
guess
hy
the
meeting
is
being
held.
It
was
arranged
by
Labor
Minister
Allan
Williams,
after
the
union
announced
it
would
take
strike
action
against
99
B
C.
hospitals.
At
first,
the
union
was
to
strike
Thursday,
but
now
this
deadline
has
been
pushed
up
to
next
week.
Peggy
Heinze,
Prince
George
chairman
of
the
union's
unit
said
she
has
not
been
informed
of
any
steps
taken
by
the
union
in
its
dispute
with
the
99
hospitals
in
the
province.
Bert
Boyd,
PGRH
administrator,
said
in
case
of
strike
all
elective
surgery
would
be
eliminated
and
only
emergency
cases
would
be
admitted.
The
Blair
report
recommended
an
average
of
15-per-cent
wage
and
fringe
benefit
Increases
over
one
year.
The
association
is
sticking
with
a
policy
of
limiting
Increases
to
eight
per
cent
for
1976.
It
termed
the
Blair
recommendations
inflationary
and
said
it
would
cost
the
industry
about
$230
million
a
year,
$30
million
more
than
in
1975.
Currently
the
average
wage
paid
non-medical
employees
is
$5
30
an
hour.
TODAY
$evi&
'I'm
afraid
you
cannot
claim
the
Government
as
a
dependant!'
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INSIDE
There's
gold
near
that
thar
pipeline'
Page
3.
Thirty-seven
persons
are
reported
killed
after
a
Boeing
727
jet
crashed
into
a
hill
at
the
end
of
an
airport
runway
and
burst
into
flames
in
the
Virgin
Islands.
Page
5.
The
Philadelphia
Flyers'
24-game
victory
streak
on
home
ice
came
to
a
startling
halt
Tuesday
night,
as
Boston
took
a
4-2
victory
in
the
opening
game
of
the
National
Hockey
League
semi-finals.
Page
15.
Business,
8;
Editorial
Page,
4;
Entertainment,
10;
Home
and
Family,
36,
37;
Horoscope,
12;
International,
5;
Local
and
provincial,
3,
9,
25;
National,
2,
Sport,
13-15;
Television,
11.
THE
WEATHER
Sunshine
is
still
in
the
forecast
as
a
large
ridge
of
high
pressure
remains
over
the
entire
province.
The
weatherman
said
no
change
in
the
warm
conditions
is
in
sight.
The
high
today,
19C;
the
low
tonight,
0C.
Thursday's
high,
21C.
The
high
Tuesday
was
18C,
the
overnight
low
was
1C.
The
high
for
April
28,
1975
was
9C;
the
low
was
-2C.
Temperatures
page
2
Wi
I
NOW
HEAR
THIS)
Not
only
does
Mayor
Harold
Moffat
think
that
his
"rubbies"
that
frequent
Third
Avenue
benches
deserve
a
place
to
sit.
he
thinks
the
city
should
provide
them
a
place
to
sleep.
"I
think
we
should
give
'em
a
shed
somewhere,"
he
said,
"Build
a
nice
shed,
heated
concrete
floor
and
all
and
let
'em
sleep
in
there.
That
way
they'd
be
warm
and
they
wouldn't
have
to
sleep
outside
somewhere,
Every
morning
you
could
clear
them
out
and
hose
the
place
down.
It
would
be
some
place
just
for
them."
0
Everybody
wants
to
see
gold.
At
Tuesday's
National
Energy
Board
hearing
here,
free
miner
Nick
Sekora
produced
a
small
vial
of
gold
particles,
Board
counsel
Fred
Lamar
of
Ontario
Immediately
crossed
the
room
to
inspect
the
gold.
Chairman
A.
Cossette-Trudel
of
Quebec
asked
to
Inspect
the
gold
as
well,
"Perhaps,"
he
said,
"the
board
members
should
come
out
to
U
C.
for
more
than
a
holiday,
and
try
our
luck
prospecting."
Counsel
George
Baldwin
extended
invitations
to
the
board
to
do
just
that.
City
cleanup
crews
are
still
having
problems
getting
people
to
pile
refuse
off
their
property
when
they
want
it
picked
up.
The
crews
can't
remove
any
garbage
that
is
on
private
property
but
will
take
away
any
junk
on
city
land,
waste
engineer
Les
Neineth
says,
Crews
are
now
cleaning
up
the
residential
area
west
of
The
Bypass
and
will
start
South
Fort
George-Millar
Addition
area
next
week.
Refuse
should
be
piled
in
the
lane
or
on
the
boulevard
where
normal
garbage
pickup
is
made.