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Tuesday,
August
10,
1976
Vol.
20;
No.
154
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SAFEWAY
DISTRIBUTOR
GETS
STRIKE
NOTICE
Supermarket
chain
faces
closure
Cose
caf
.
.
.
Local
man
killed
at
'party'
One
man
is
dead
and
at
least
four
people
are
in
custody
following
a
stabbing
incident
at
the
Riverview
Motel
on
North
Nechako
Road
early
today.
Police
said
the
man,
who
appeared
to
be
in
his
40s,
was
stabbed
in
the
chest
during
"a
party".
The
people
in
custody,
two
men
and
two
women,
are
being
held
for
Investigative
purposes,
a
police
spokesman
said.
"Not
all
of
them
will
be
charged,"
he
said.
All
persons
involved
in
the
incident
live
in
Prince
George,
he
added.
No
names
have
been
released.
Oil
barons
to
create
loan
fund
VIENNA
(Reuter)
Developing
countries
will
be
able
to
start
borrowing
money
before
the
end
of
this
year
from
a
special
fund
set
up
by
the
Organization
of
Petroleum
Exporting
Countries
(OPEC),
a
senior
Iranian
official
said
Monday,
Mohammed
Yeganeh,
chairman
of
the
board
of
governors
.
of
the
$800-million
OPEC
fund,
said
the
oil
countries'
lending
would
have
no
political
strings
attached.
"The
only
conditions
we
set
will
be
economic,"
Yeganeh
told
journalists
at
the
end
of
a
three-day
governors'
meeting.
Half
of
OPEC's
aid
fund
will
be
available
to
the
world's
45
poorest
countries
to
bridge
balance-of-payments
difficulties
and
finance
development
projects,
said
Yeganeh,
a
minister
of
state
in
the
Iranian
government.
OPEC's
interest-free
loans
over
20
or
25
years
would
effectively
have
a
grant
element
of
70
per
cent,
he
said.
Only
nominal
administrative
charges
would
be
made
to
the
borrowers.
He
said
OPEC
was
anxious
to
start
lending
as
soon
as
pos
sible,
and
the
fund's
governors
would
meet
again
in
November,
probably
in
Vienna.
"The
intention
is
that
before
the
end
of
this
year
the
assistance
will
start,"
he
added.
'
The
fund
will
start
by
lending
200
million
for
balance-of-payments
problems,
with
the
most
seriously-affected
countries
getting
priority.
Clticen
photo
by
John
Pope
Joe
Potskin,
6,
of
Princs
George
is
placed
on
stretcher
after
he
received
minor
injuries
,
Monday
noon
when
he
was
hit
by
a
car
on
20th
Avenue
near
Victoria
Street.
He
was
treated
for
minor
injuries
at
Prince
George
Regional
Hospital
and
released.
Patty's
LOS
ANGELES
(
AP)
-
Wil-liam
and
Emily
Harris,
avowed
revolutionaries
who
shared
Patricia
Hearst's
underground
life,
were
convicted
Monday
of
kidnapping
and
robbery
in
a
trial
which
is
not
yet
over.
In
a
verdict
with
grave
implications
for
Miss
Hearst,
the
Harrises
were
acquitted
of
six
counts
of
assault
but
were
convicted
of
two
kidnapings,
one
robbery
and
two
car
thefts
all
involving
Miss
Hearst.
The
jury
apparently
believed
the
Harrises'
contention
that
Miss
Hearst,
a
co-defendant,
willingly
took
part
in
the
shooting
that
led
to
the
assault
charges.
Without
dismissing
the
jury
and
ending
the
trial,
the
judge
scheduled
an
unusual
hearing
today
to
investigate
whether
the
verdict
was
tainted
by
prejudice.
In
a
surprise
move,
the
jurors
asked
and
were
permitted
to
remain
sequestered
at
a
guarded
hotel
overnight
to
avoid
publicity.
The
sources
of
possible
jury
bias
included
reports
of
the
construction
of
two
mock
hangman's
nooses
by
potential
jurors,
the
smuggling
of
an
inflammatory
newspaper
article
into
a
jury
room
and
an
allegedly
biased
remark
by
a
juror
who
took
part
in
the
verdict.
The
verdict
by
the
seven-woman,
five-man
jury
was
angrily
challenged
by
the
defence.
"I
don't
think
this
verdict
will
stand
in
any
court,"
said
chief
defence
lawyer
Leonard
Weinglass.
Unless
the
verdict
is
set
aside,
Weinglass
said
he
would
appeal
on
numerous
grounds.
Chief
prosecutor
Sam
Mayerson
said
if
prejudice
a
were
shownat
the
jury
hearing
he
would
join
in
a
motion
to
set
Royal
EDMONTON
(CP)
-
If
nature
calls
at
the
stadium
during
the
1978
Commonwealth
Games
here,
the
Queen
will
not
have
to
hustle
up
72
steps
to
the
concourse
level
to
wait
in
line
for
a
washroom.
A
royal
"throne"
is
to
be
built
at
field
level
behind
the
royal
box
for
the
Games
and
a
report
prepared
for
this
week's
city
council
meeting
indicates
the
special
facility
will
flush
$50,000
out
of
the
WILLIAM,
EMILY
HARRIS
sidekicks
convicted
WILLIAM
HARRIS
aside
the
verdict
and
seek
a
new
trial.
"There
were
some
unusual
events
in
the
trial,
but'I
don't
think
they
indicate
the
jury
was
tainted
at
all,"
he
said.
After
the
verdict
was
announced,
District
Attorney
John
Van
de
Kamp
said-he
would
pursue
the
prosecution
of
Miss
Hearst..
RCMP
SGT.
COSTELLO
City
man
saves
Special
to
The
Citizen
BLAIRMORE,
Alta.
A
Prince
George
RCMP
officer
vacationing
in
southern
Alberta
rescued
a
truck
driver
from
drowning
after
,his
truck
plunged
into
Crows
Nest
Lake
near
here
early
Monday.
Sgt.
Pat
Costello
of
the
RCMP
city
detachment
dived
into
the
icy
water
of
the
lake
and
swam
about
50
feet
to
save
Douglas
Ivan
Majors
of
Calgary.
A
Blairmore
RCMP
spokesman
said
Majors
was
driving
his
tanker
truck
west
on
Highway
3
when
he
rounded
corner
and
his
truck
plunged
into
the
50-foot-deep
water
of
the
lake.
biffy
to
EMILY
HARRIS
Although
a
co-defendant
with
the
Harrises,
Miss
Hearst's
trial
has
been
delayed
until
Jan.
10
while
she
undergoes
psychiatric
testing
prior
to
sentencing
on
a
federal
bank
robbery
conviction
in
San
Francisco.
Miss
Hearst
has
admitted
her
role
in
the
May
16,
1974,
crime
spree
which
led
to
The
spokesman
said
Major
got
out
of
the
truck
and
was
treading
water
when
Costello
COSTELLO
Games'
construction
contingency
fund.
That's
100
times
what
the
same
report
indicates
will
be
the
cost
of
two
public
washrooms
planned
for
the
Velodrome
and
the
Strathcona
Range.
A
Commonwealth
Games
official,
who
asked
not
to
be
named,
said
the
royal
biffy
will
be
a
"tiny
waiting
room
with
His
and
Hers
washrooms
located
in
a
32-foot
by
17-foot
room
dug
under
(he
stadium
wall.
He
said
it
was
a
traditional
convenience
for
royalty.
charges
against
all
three,
but
she
said
she
was
an
unwilling
captive
of
the
Harrises
and
the
Symbionese
Liberation
Army.
She
has
said
she
sprayed
a
Los
Angeles
sporting
goods
store
with
machine-gun
fire
to
free
William
Harris
after
he
was
stopped
for
shoplifting.
The
prosecution
said
the
trio
then
commandeered
a
van
and
car
to
escape,
the
basis
for
the
other
charges.
Although
the
Harrises
face
the
possiblity
of
a
maximum
sentence
of
life
on
one
count
of
robbery,
the
jury's
reduction
of
other
charges
and
the
assault
acquittals
were
seen
as
a
partial
victory
for
the
defence.
The
jury
reduced
the
most
serious
charger-kidnapping
for
the
purpose
of
robbery
to
simple
kidnapping,
sparing
the
Harrises
a
mandatory
life
sentence.
trucker
arrived.
Costello
noticed
Majors
was
having
trouble
staying
afloat
so
he
donned
a
lifejacket
and
swam
out
to
the
man.
Majors
had
started
sinking
when
Costello
grabbed
him
by
the
hair
and
pulled
him
to
shore,
said
the
spokesman.
"The
water
is
very
cold
and
you
can
only
swim
in
that
lake
with
a
wet
suit
on,"
he
said.
Passers
by
applied
artificial
rescusitation
and
heart
massage
to
Majors,
who
had
stopped
breathing.
"Costello
was
too
cold
at
that
point
to
do
anything
else,"
the
spokesman
said.
Majors
is
currently
In
serious
condition
in
hospital.
cost
$50,000
There
will
be
no
fancy
fixtures.
They
will
be
"no
different
than
those
you'd
put
In
your
home,"
the
official
said.
The
cost
estimate
does
not
include
.furnishing
the
waiting
area
with
couches
and
chairs.
The
room
will
be
open
only
to
the
royal
party.
Games
officials
and
other
dignitaries
presumably
will
have
to
hike
up
the
72
steps
and
hope
the
waiting
lines
are
not
too
long.
by
GERY
ARDLEY
Citizen
staff
reporter
The
93
Canada
Safeway
stores
in
the
province,
including
two
in
Prince
George,
may
be
forred
to
close
sometime
next
week
after
shipments
from
Mac-donalds
Consolidated
distribution
centre
in
Burnaby
cease
Thursday.
The
shut-down
would
put
84
employees
in
Prince
George
stores
out
of
work.
Members
of
the
Retail,
Wholesale
and
Department
Store
Union
local
580
delivered
72-hour
notice
Monday
to
Mac-donalds
to
clean
out
perishable
merchandise
at
its
centre.
The
clean-out
deadline
is
2
p.m.
Thursday.
Union
and
company
officials
were
to
meet
today
in
an
attempt
to
avert
a
strike
at
Mac-donalds,
supplier
of
food
products
to
the
93
Safeway
stores
in
the
province.
A
company
spokesman
said
today
there
will
be
no
shipments
to
any
Safeway
stores
after
2
p.m.
Thursday.
Stores
will
continue
to
remain
open
as
long
as
there
is
sufficient
stock.
Local
Safeway
store
manager
Wally
Lindsay
said
today
he
thinks
stock
will
last
about
one
week
after
the
cleanut.
"But
I
can't
really
say,"
he
said.
"I've
never
been
through
this
before."
AI
Peterson,
spokesman
for
the
Retail,
Wholesale
and
Department
Store
Union,
said
Monday
800
members
of
local
580
have
voted
93
per
cent
to
reject
Macdonalds'
latest
offer,
which
came
after
four
and
one-half
months
of
bargaining.
Closure
of
the
stores
in
B.C.
would
put
about
5,000
employees
out
of
work.
Peterson
said
the
workers
rejected
the
company
offer
because
of
proposed
deletions
,
from
the
old
contract
which
expired
March
31.
He
said
the
company
wants
to
change
the
previous
grievance
procedure,
delete
trucking
jobs
out
of
Calgary
and
change
the
pension
plan.
.
He
said
If
it
wasn't
for
these
changes,
the
membership
would
have
reluctantly
accepted
the
company's
wage
offer
of
an
eight-per-cent
increase
over
one
year,
or
69
cents
more
an
hour.
The
company
spokesman
said
a
statement
will
be
issued
later
today
on
the
changes.
Belle
loses
punch
NEW
YORK
(AP)
-
The
New
York
metropolitan
area
cleaned
up
today
after
its
first
major
hurricane
in
more
than
a
decade
as
the
storm,
downgraded
in
strength,
carried
its
heavy
winds
and
heavy
rains
north
through
New
England.
Flooding
in
the
wake
of
hurricane
Belle,
now
a
tropical
storm,
posed
serious
problems
for
Vermont
and
other
parts
of
New
England.
"There
are
just
too
many
to
list
them;
we're
in
real
trouble,"
said
Earl
Osgood,
operations
director
of
Civil
Defence
for
Vermont,
when
he
was
asked
about
flooded
roads
and
washed-out
bridges.
The
impact
of
Belle,
which
made
its
first
landfall
on
suburban
Long
Island
early
in
the
morning,
was
not
as
severe
as
had
been
expected
in
the
New
York
metropolitan
area.
But
it
was
bad
enough
to
flood
basements,
snarl
traffic
and
leave
hundreds
of
thousands
of
people
without
electricity
after
fallen
trees
snapped
power
lines,
Forecasters
said
the
worst
of
the
storm,
which
had
packed
winds
of
up
to
130
kilometres
an
hour
during
its
three-day
journey
north
along
the
Atlantic
Coast,
would
be
over
by
noon
EDT,
But
the
danger
of
flooding
from
heavy
rains
remained
and
flood
watches
were
posted
in
parts
of
Connecticut,
Massachusetts
and
northern
New
England.
Five
to
eight
inches
of
rain
were
expected
In
Connecticut;
up
to
six
inches
was
predicted
for
Vermont.
Osgood
said
almost
all
the
towns
from
the
Massachusetts
line
to
Shrewsbury,
Vt.;
about
12
miles
southof
Rutland,
were
threatened
by
severe
flooding.
Photo,
page
7
TODAY
'Did
he
say
why
he
wants
defect?'
FEATURED
INSIDE
The
CIA
has
denied
involvement
in
the
gangland
slay-ings
of
two
mobsters
it
once
hired
to
kill
Cuban
leader
Fidel
Castro.
Page
5.
7
Toronto
policemen
have
been
enjoying
special
discounts
from
restaurants
that
have
discovered
the
benefits
of
having
a
cop
nearby.
Page
2.
Pakistan
wants
to
buy
U.S.
bombers.
Page
7.
The
jobless
rate
in
Prince
George
has
dropped,
bucking
the
national
trend.
Page
3.
Pittsburgh's
John
Candelaria
threw
a
no-hitter
at
the
Los
Angeles
Dodgers
Monday
night,
as
the
Pirates
continue
to
inch
closer
to
front-running
Philadelphia.
Page
15.
Business,
8;
Classified,
18-27;
Comics,
10;
Editorial,
4;
Entertainment,
10;
International,
5;
Home
and
Family,
12-13;
Horoscopes,
28;
Local
and
Provincial,
3,
6,
9;
National,
2;
Sports,
15-17;
Television,
10.'
THE
Mainly
sUnny
skies
with
a
few
afternoon
cloudy
periods
are
predicted
for
today
and
Wednesday.
Rainfall
recbrded.
for
Monday
was
nil.
Monday's
high
was
21,
with
an
overnight
low
of
12.
Low
tonight,
10,
with
a
high
of
21
today
and
Wednesday.-
On
Aug.
10,
1975,
the
high
was
14;
the
low,
9.
A
mixture
of
sunshine
and
clouds
with
the
slight
risk
of
a
few
showers
are
predicted
for
the
next
few
days.
Temperatures
page
2
NOW
HEAR
THIS)
Mayor
Angus
Davis
of
Fraser
Lake
was
recently
applauded
in
a
Fresno,
Calif.,
newspaper
after
he
rescued
an
outdoor
writer
from
the
doldrums
of
a
f
is
hi
ess
tour.
Jim
Forbes
of
Fresno,
one
of
several
international
journalists
touring
Yellowhead
16
last
month,
passed
through
Fraser
Lake
with
his
companions,
depressed
because
he
was
in
excellent
fishing
country
but
hadn't
had
a
chance
to
dip
his
line
in
water.
Mayor
Davis
arranged
for
Forbes
and
friends
to
fish
Francois
Lake.
Dinner
that
night
was
fresh
Francois
Lake
trout.
It's
a
dog's
life.
A
city
woman
posted
a
reward
for
her
lost
dog
recently.
It
was
found
but
the
finder
told
the
woman
the
reward
wasn't
quite
enough
and
refused
to
give
the
dog
back.
Police
were
called
and
the
matter
was
quickly
settled;
ELUSIVE
MONSTER
Sonar
Verifies7
Nessie
is
real
BOSTON
(Reuter)
-
Dr.
Robert
Rines,
a
scientist
who
is
searching
for
the
Loch
Ness
monster,
says
his
research
team's
sonar
scans
of
the
loch
this
summer
have
verified
the
existence
qf
monsters
there.
In
ah
interview
at
his
office
here
Monday,
Rines
said
a
team
of
British
divers
probably
will
be
at
the
Loch
next
October
to
investigate
several
target
areas
where
he
thinks
skeletons
of
past
Nessies
remain.
He
declined
to
say
where
the
areas
are,
but
said
that
the
sonar
team
headed
by
Dr.
Christopher
MacGowan
had
found
a
number
of
targets
"worthy
of
exploration."
The
Rines
expedition,
to
the
loch
this
summer
installed
and
tested
a
permanent
station
to;
monitor
the
lake
for
the
mons-'
ter.
"This
expedition
has
taken
the
Idea
of
the
project
out
of
to
WEATHER)
the
joke-book
stage
and
into
the
serious
area,"
Rines
said.
"Our
recent
tests
and
sonar
scans
have
verified
there
are
a
number
of
creatures
there
and
although
no
creatures
came
close
enough
for
definitive
pictures,
we
have
laid
the
groundwork
for
solid
and
productive
investigations
in
the
future."
SALISBURY
(Reuter)
More
than
300
black
nationalist
guerrillas
were,
killed
in
a
raid
by
Rhodeslan
government
security
forces
on
a
guerrilla
base
camp
in
neighboring
Mozambique
last
Sunday,
the
government
reported
Tuesday
night.
Rhodeslan
troops
suffered
only
minor
wounds,
the
gov
eminent
said.
.!