QUAKE
CAUSES
PANIC
AMONG
MILLIONS
Italians
dig
in
ruins
for
dead
VENICE
(AP)
Rescue
workers
dug
frantically
today
for
possible
survivors
in
the
earthquake
ruins
of
dozens
of
towns
and
villages
in
northeast
Italy,
and
it
was
feared
the
death
toll
would
reach
at
least
300.
The
massive
shock
Thursday
night
was
felt
In
half
of
Italy
and
at
least
six
other
countries,
causing
panic
among
millions.
Reuter
news
agency
said
about
30
persons
on
the
Yugoslavia
side
of
the
Italian
frontier
were
injured
See
EARTHQUAKE
page
5
when
they
jumped
in
terror
from
windows
in
the
towns
of
Nova
Gorica
and
Tolmin.
No
deaths
or
major
damage
was
reported
outside
Italy
or
in
major
Italian
cities.
At
midday
today,
national
police
headquarters
in
Rome
reported
243
bodies
recovered
in
19
towns,
with
scores
feared
trapped
under
the
wreckage
of
buildings.
More
than
1,000
persons
were
injured,
a
number
of
them
seriously.
The
worst
quake
in
the
last
10
years
in
Europe
and
in
the
Prince
George
Killed
this
week:
Killed
this
year:
To
same
date
1975:
Injured
this
week:
11
Injured
this
year:
129
To
same
date
1975:
183
FEATURED
INSIDE
)
0
Canadians
should
know
by
the
end
of
this
month
how
much
more
they
will
be
paying
for
energy
products.
Page
2.
There's
a
snake
loose
in
Grade
2
as
education
reporter
Gery
Ardley
continues
her
series
on
Prince
George
schools.
Page
43.
Blacks
living
In
white
neighborhoods
in
Los
Angeles
are
being
subjected
to
burning-cross
terror.
Page
5.
Prince
George
boxer
Sid
McKnight
will
have
to
wait
a
few
days
before
he
knows
if
he
has
been
selected
to
the
Canadian
Olympic
team.
McKnight
won
the
Canadian
light
flyweight
title
Thursday
night.
Page
13.
Business,
8;
Classified,
26-40;
Comics,
21;
Church,
46;
Home
and
Family,
40-41;
Horoscope,
22;
International,
5;
Local
and
Provincial,
3,
6,
7,
11,
43;
Wenzel
column,
11;
National,
2;
Editorial,
4;
Sports,
13-15;
Television
19-20;
Mini
Page
41.
THE
WEATHERJ
Sunshine
is
expected
for
Prince
George
today
as
a
ridge
of
high
pressure
moved
into
the
area.
Clouds
and
showers
are
predicted
for
Saturday
as
a
weather
system
enters
the
Central
Interior.
The
high
today
and
Saturday,
18C;
the
low
tonight,
2C.
Thursday's
high
was
11C;
the
low
was
1C
and
3.3
mm
of
rain
fell.
The
high
for
May
7,
1975
was
13C;
the
low
was
-2C.
1
NOW
HEAR
THIS
.
J
City
manager
Chester
Jeffery
deplores
anything
which
adds
to
the
city's
tendency
toward
untidyness.
He
manages
annually
to
convince
council
to
allot
considerable
money
to
the
annual
spring
cleanup
to
spruce
up
Prince
George
after
a
winter's
accumulation
of
refuse.
He
also
practises
what
he
preaches.
This
morning,
walking
to
work.
Chet
was
seen
picking
up
scraps
of
paper
which
were
littering
the
street.
Some
of
life's
greatest
surprises
often
hide
in
the
poc-'
kets
of
coats
and
pants.
But
a
local
man
was
more
embarrassed
than
surprised
when
he
reached
into
his
pocket
as
left
a
beer
parlor
with
friends
this
week.
"Oh
no,"
he
exclaimed.
"I
promised
my
wife
I'd
bring
this
home
right
after
work,"
He
pulled
out
a
roll
of
toilet
paper,
Complaining
about
the
four-way
stop
at
Third
Avenue
and
Carney
Street,
Mayor
Harold
Moffat
told
council
Monday
he
had
a
close
call
there
and
didn't
know
it.
"I
came
wheeling
through
tliat
intersection
and
this
guy
starts
blo-win'
his
horn
at
me.
Thought
he
was
a
voter
so
I
waved
back
and
went
on.
Coming
back
I
saw
the
stop
sign
and
thought
'holy
almighty'."
The
mayor
suggested
city
engineer
Ernie
Obst
should
put
stop
signs
in
the
middle
of
the
street
on
a
big
post
"so
you
can't
miss
'em."
Asia
Minor
was
in
eastern
Turkey
in
1966
when
2,529
were
killed.
More
than
17,000
died
in
Guatemala
in
a
quake
last
February.
Thursday
night's
quake
rocked
an
area
from
Venice
to
the
Yugoslav
border
in
the
east
to
Milan
In
the
west
and
tremors
were
felt
as
far
south
as
Naples,
as
well
as
in
sections
of
Yugoslavia,
Austria,
Czechoslovakia,
West
Germany,
The
Netherlands
and
Belgium.
Hundreds
of
Belgians
fled
from
high-rise
apartment
houses.
Most
of
the
damage
in
Italy
was
In
towns
and
villages
along
both
sides
of
the
Tagliamento
River
which
flows
from
the
eastern
Alps
into
the
Adriatic
some
40
miles
northeast
of
Venice.
The
area
is
about
36
miles
east
of
site
of
one
of
modern
Italy's
w'orst
tragedies,
the
Vaiont
dam
disaster
that
claimed
almost
2,000
lives
in
1963.
At
noon
the
villages
of
Buia,
Maiano
and
Gemona
were
deserted,
their
survivors
sleeping
in
the
open
and
in
shade
as
soldiers
and
bulldozers
dug
out
the
debris
under
a
hot
sun.
Soldiers
gave
out
bread
and
water
to
survivors
Rapist
jailed
6
years
A
40-year-old
Quesnel
man
was
sentenced
to
six
years
in
prison
today
by
B.C.
Supreme
Court
Judge
Richard
Anderson.
George
H.
Hindle
was
found
guilty
by
a
Prince
George
jury-
after
about
seven
hours
of
deliberation
on
the
rape
charge,
but
acquitted
on
a
charge
of
pointing
a
firearm
at
another
person.
.
The
charge
was
laid
Oct,
25,
after
a
former
Quesnel
housewife
complained
to
police
she
had
been
taken
from
her
home
by
Hindle
and
led
by
a
rope
around
her
neck
to
Hindle's
residence
several
miles
away.
He
later
had
sexual
intercourse
with
her
without
her
consent.
Asked
by
the
judge
whether
he
had
anything
to
say
before
being
sentenced,
Hindle
said
the
Crown
prevented
him
from
having
the
best
defence
possible,
by
withholding
evidence
to
the
last
minute.
"I
have
practised
law
since
1949
and
I
have
never
seen
a
better
defence
than
that
by
Mr,
(Allan)
Bate,"
the
judge
told
him.
whose
houses
had
been
demolished,
The
army
also
flew
In
tents.
In
Rome,
the
caretaker
cabinet
of
Premier
Aldo
Moro
met
in
an
emergency
session
to
consider
relief
measures.
The
worst
casualty
toll
was
reported
In
Maiano,
a
town
of
about
1,900
about
four
miles
from
the
river,
where
officials
set
up
a
command
centre.
Police
said
a
series
of.
sharp
tremors
killed
58,
injured
300
and
destroyed
half
the
homes
in
Maiano.
.
The
town's
mayor
said
the
dead
included
ayounggirl
crushed
when
a
Renaissance
bell
tower
fell.
Italian
army
trucks
carried
troops
into
the
area
to
begin
digging
through
the
rubble.
They
were
joined
by
fire-brigade
vehicles
and
commercial
bulldozers
pressed
into
service.
The
national
police
in
Rome
said
the
quake
levelled
Forgarla,
a
town
of
4,000,
and
destroyed
a
quarter
to
a
half
of
the
buildings
In
the
towns
of
Buia,
Osoppo,
San
pietro
di
Ramogna
and
Collaredo.
A
police
officer
in
Forgaria
said
the
situation
there
was
"catastrophic."
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.
Slowdown
at
BCR
stalls
14,000
tons
of
freight
by
JAN-UDO
WENZEL
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
Some
14,000
tons
of
southbound
freight
is
stuck
in
the
Prince
George
B.C.
Railway
yard
unable
to
be
moved
because
of
a
general
work
slowdown
by
members
of
the
United
Transportation
Union
(UTU).
"The
railway's
efficiency
at
present
is
reduced
by
about
30
per
cent,"
BCR
spokesman
Hugh
Armstrong
said
from
Vancouver.
The
UTU
is
In
a
contract
dispute
with
the
railway
and
members
decided
to
slow
down
in
their
daily
duties.
Armstrong
said
he
did
not
know
how
long
the
line
could
operate
under
slowdown
conditions.
Yards
all
along
the
line
are
jammed
up
with
cars
and
loaded
trains,
he
said.
In
Prince
George
no
trains
have
arrived
from
the
north
or
are
leaving
either
north
or
south.
It
takes
some
employees
15
hours
to
do
a
job
they
usually
do
in
10
hours,"
Armstrong
said.
Prince
George
UTU
members
held
a
meeting
Thursday,
but
no
public
announcements
were
made.
UTU
general
chairman
Glen
Bowles
said
in
Vancouver
it
was
strictly
a
regular
meeting,
although
a
week
ahead
of
the
usual
date.
The
UTU
has
been
without
a
contract
since
last
July
and
has
rejected
third-party
binding
arbitration
to
settle
the
dispute.
The
main
issue
is
the
union's
demand
to
be
paid
daily
overtime.
Teamsters,
Railway,
Airline
and
Steamship
Clerks,
the
Union
of
Maintenance
of
Way
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locates
cities,
mostly
in
northeastern
Italy,
which
were
hit
by
a
strong
earthquake
Thursday
night.
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John
Howson
paddles
into
home,
one
of
several
in
Vanderhoof
isolated
by
flooding
Nechako
River.
Employees
and
the
operating
engineers
employed
by
the
BCR
all
have
agreed
to
arbitration.
Tuesday
the
government
introduced
a
bill
which
would
ban
strikes
and
lockouts
at
the
BCR
for
four
years.
This
bill
has
met
with
strong
objections
from
organized
labor
and
an
alternative
has
been
suggested
by
the
B.C.
.
Federation
of
Labor.
In
co-operation
with
the
federation
eight
BCR
unions
have
formed
a
voluntary
council
of
uninos.
This
council
is
to
co-ordinate
bargaining
for
the
individual
unions
with
the
railway,
which
should
eliminate
the
need
for
a
strike
ban
law,
the
federation
said.
This
formation
of
a
council
is
designed
to
give
the
unions
increased
strength
when
negotiating
with
the
line.
But
Bowles
said
his
union
currently
is
interested
mainly
in
settling
on
a
contract.
BUENOS
AIRES
(AP)
An
investigating
judge
has
filed
preliminary
charges
of
misusing
public
funds
against
former
president
Isabel
Peron
and
three
associates,
The
indictments
ordered
by
Judge
Nino
Garcia
Moritan
named
Juan
Peron's
44-year-old
widow;
Jose
Lopez
Rega,
the
chief
power
in
her
regime
until
the
military
and
the
unions
forced
her
to
fire
him
last
summer;
his
son-in-law,
Raul
Lastiri,
who
was
president
of
the
lower
house
of
Congress,
and
Lastiri's
wife,
Norma.
Marchand
hearing
footsteps
OTTAWA
(CP)
-
Progressive
Conservative
Elmer
MacKay
dismissed
as
ludicrous
Thursday
allegations
by
Environment
Minister
Jean
Marchand
that
private
detectives
had
been
hired
by
political
opponents
to
follow
him.
"I
feel
sorry
for
Jean
Marchand
if
he
feels
that
paranoid,"
said
Mr.
Mac-Kay,
who
has
led
his
party's
attack
on
alleged
irregularities
in
transport
department
contract
tendering.
Mr.
MaTchand,
former
transport
minister,
said
in
a
Frenchlanguage
radio
interview
Thursday
that
he
is
being
followed
by
people
who
want
to
"destroy
me
politically."
"I
have
nothing
to
hide,"
he
said,
"But
I
find.it
simply
odious
that
I
am
followed
simply
to
see
if
they
can
find
something
abnormal
that
can
be
exploited
politically,"
In
the"
Commons,
Solicitor-General
Warren
Allmand
said
he
is
looking
into
reports
that
MPs
were
being
investigated
by
private
detectives.
OVER
1,000
POLICE
IN
MANHUNT
Terrorists
slay
nine
Mexican
lawmen
MEXICO
CITY
(AP)
-
More
than
1,000
detectives
searched
today
for
five
terrorists,
including
a
tall,
blonde
man
and
a
woman
In
black,
who
shot
and
killed
nine
law
enforcement
officers
in
a
residential
suburb
of
Mexico
City.
Those
slain
in
two
attacks
Thursday
included
six
police
agents
assigned
as
bodyguards
to
a
prominent
family,
two
treasury
department
guards
and
a
bank
guard.
Police
said
one
witness
heard
the
attackers
shout
they
were
members
of
the
23rd
of
September
League.
The
group,
named
for
a
raid
on
a
Chihuahua
army
barracks
several
years
ago,
is
one
of
Mexico's
most
active
urban
terrorist
groups.
Police
agents
and
witnesses
gave
this
account
of
the
killings;
Four
men
and
the
woman
in
black
burst
into
a
restaurant
In
the
quiet
northern
suburb
of
Linda
vista
on
Thursday
morning
while
six
police
guards
assigned
to
watch
a
furniture
man's
family
were
having
breakfast
there.
The
blonde
man
fired
a
machine-gun,
killing
three
agents
at
one
table.
The
others
used
pistols
to
kill
three
more
at
another
table.
The
blonde
gunman
smiled
as
he
disarmed
the
officers'
bodies
and
threw
their
weapons
into
a
bag.
As
the
band
ran
out
of
the
restaurant,
they
shot
and
killed
the
bank
guard
at
a
table
near
the
door.
The
gang
jumped
into
a
car,
drove
a
short
distance
and
stopped
near
a
street
Stand
at
which
two
treasury
men
were
drinking
fruit
juice,
unaware
of
the
restaurant
shootings.
The
woman
in
black
crossed
the
street
and
killed
them
with
a
,45-calibre.
pistol.
The
police
agents
killed
in
the
restaurant
were
part
of
a
force
of
25
men
assigned
to
guard
Olegario
Vazquez
Rana,
owner
of
a
furniture
store,
and
his
family.
None
of
the
Vazquezes
were
in
the
area
at
the
time,
x
Federal
security
police
are
often
assigned
to
protect
prominent
private
citizens
and
are
paid
by
the
families
they
guard.
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Waiting
game
played
with
Nechako
By
Citizen
Staff
reporters
VANDERHOOF
-
More
rain
is
forecast
today
as
residents
here
play
a
waiting
game
with
a
dangerously-swollen
Nechako
River.
Overnight
the
river
crept
another
three
to
four
Inches
higher.
On
Thursday,
Provincial
Emergency
Program
spokesman
Perry
Creighton
said
there
was
another
18
inches
of
leeway
in
most
places
before
serious
trouble
was
encountered.
Today
that
margin
grows
thin.
About
10
homes
have
been
evacuated
in
the
Turner
sub-'
division
on
the
south
side
of
the
municipality
bordering
the
Nechako.
Meanwhile
in
Houston,
180
miles
west
of
Prince
George,
about
three
families
have
been
evacuated
from
their
homes
near
Buck
Creek
and
the
Bulkley
River,
according
to
city
clerk
Bob
Matthews.
Work
on
the
dikes
in
Houston
continues
and
two
more
feet
of
gravel
were
added
to
the
dikes
Thursday
night.
In
Vanderhoof,
bulldozers
have
packed
earthen
barricades
against
the
quietly
raising
grey
Nechako.
Sandbags
line
streets
and
bunch
together
to
protect
the
newly
built
homes.
Outside
some
houses,
appliances
sit
high
on
makeshift
stilts
to
escape
the
water.
Already
five
basements
have
been
flooded
on
this
side
of
town.
The
two
roads
leading
into
the
Turner
subdivision
are
deep
in
water.
One
street
has
been
filled
with
soil
to
facilitate
a
make-shift
passage
but
today
it
has
turned
to
oozing
mud.
On
the
north
side
of
the
town,
the
Nechako
has
already
filled
residential
lots
and
is
creeping
slowly
up
the
Sunny
Slope
Motel
and
Trailer
Park.
A
tenant
prepares
to
evacuate
his
mobile
home
as
he
pumps
on
a
jack
to
elevate
the
premise
out
of
the
water.
Soil
brought
in
to
act
as
a
dike
has
turned
to
mud.
Near
the
trailer
court,
about
three
homes
sit
only
a
few
feel
from
the
Nechako.
Theiryards
are
filled
with
water
and
a
nameplate
swings
curiously
on
a
post
protruding
from
about
two
feet
of
water.
Down
the
highway
bordering
the
Nechako,
the
Nechako
River
Motel
is
in
serious
danger
from
the
rising
water.
A
gravel
dike
has
been
packed
against
the
flow
of
the
river
but
only
concrete
blocks
about
eight
inches
high
protect
the
sides
of
the
motel.
It
is
a
matter
of
inches
before
the
water
spills
over,
but
residents
still
maintain
their
quarters
in
the
complex.
Officials
at
the
water
resources
branch
are
caught
between
the
fire
and
the
frying
pan
as
they
try
to
control
flooding
caused
by
spring
run-offs.
If
they
let
out
water
too
fast
from
the
Skins
spillway,
which
is
the
main
control
structure
for
the
Nechako
Reservoir,
they
could
contribute
to
flooding
in
Vanderhoof,
but
if
they
hold
too
much
water
back
the
dam
might
not
be
able
to
contain
water
from
the
higher
level
run-offs
later
this
month.