Impact
sled
Citizen
reporter
Theano
Komas
goes
flying
into
mattress
as
she
tries
impact
sled,
focal
point
of
the
CARnage
road
safety
committee's
booth
at
the
Prince
George
Exhibition.
Komas
tries
the
sled
again,
right,
to
discover
advantage
of
wearing
a
seat
belt.
More
on
Exhibition,
page
3.
Friday,
August
13,
1976
Vol.
20;
No.
156
The
Citizen
by
TOM
NIXON
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
Want
to
buy
a
dream,
complete
with
indoor
waterfall,
crystal
chandelier
and
pet
peacocks
wandering
around
the
20-acre
estate?
Do
you
have
$6,500
loose
change
left
over
every
month
from
a
minimum
$200,000
annual
wage?
Can
you
scrape
up
at
least
$33,000
for
a
down
payment
and
get
by
without
assistance
from
the
Assisted
Home
Ownership
Program.
Theoretically,
for
those
figures
a
person
can
walk
into
the
real
estate
office
and
buy
Ben
Ginter's
$650,000
Prince
George
home.
For
most
people
however,
the
purchase
would
be
more
of
a
dream
than
the
house
was
for
Ginter
when
he
built
it
in
1962.
The
home,
snuggled
under
the
shadow
of
Cranbrook
Hill
at
the
back
of
Ginter's
Green
Valley
Ranch,
has
been
for
sale
for
years
but
for
the
first
time
it
has
been
listed
with
a
local
realtor.
Ben
Ginter's
country
home;
a
$650,000
dream.
Ginter's
house
listed
for
sale
The
advertisement
this
week
by
the
realty
firm
modestly
described
the
3,300-square-foot
home
as
an
"executive
home
with
a
view
of
the
city".
That
hardly
does
justice
to
a
house
famous
in
the
city
for
its
lavish,
grandiose
style.
Imagine:'
An
indoor
pool
40
feet
long
with
a
plexiglass
dome
in
the
roof
over
it.
A
waterfall
in
a
corner
of
the
pool,
A
covered
veranda
large
enough
for
a
tennis
tournament.
A
circular
drive
right
out
of
"Gone
With
The
Wind."
Japanese
butterflies
laminated
into
the
ceiling
of
one
room.
A
corner-wise
bed
built
into
the
wall
of
another
room.
A
calf-skin-covered
bar.
A
house
built
to
impress,
to
awe,
to
give
a
place
in
Prince
George
society
for
a
bulldozer
operator
who
had
made
it.
"I
designed
it
myself,"
says
former
beer
baron
Ben
Ginter;
"It's
got
a
heating
system
in.
pipes
in
the
floor
so
you
can
have
hot
water
in
the
winter
and
'TAKE
POLITICS
OUT
OF
BCR'
cold
in
the
summer
to
heat
and
cool
the
place.
"I
engineered
the
water
system
myself.
Spring
water
from
the
hill
behind.
Always
the
same,
temperature
year
round
Gravity
fed."
"I
designed
the
house
with
the
idea
that
maybe
someday
it
could
be
clubhouse
of
some
sort.
I
thought
maybe
in
the
future
it
could
be
used
by
Prince
George
people."
The
house
is
one
of
the
last
of
Ginter's
possessions
in
Prince
George.
His
brewery
is
gone.
Sold
by
the
receiver
after
a
bank
called
without
warning
a
huge
loan.
Remaining
is'a
large
amount
of
land,
mainly
on
Cranbrook
Hill
where
the
city's
next
development
will
happen.
"Most
of
my
business
is
in
Vancouver,
now,"
Ginter
says,
"There's
no
reason
to
keep
the
house."
Got
half
a
million
dollars
laying
around
looking
for
a
dream
to
latch
on
to?
As
it
says
in
the
ad,
"Call
Bill
or
Brock".
Dispute
hurt
448
firms
by
JOHN
POPE
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
The
Fraser-Fort
George
Poalnnnl
nictrlnl
hastb-ort
a
report
Thursday
designed
to
"take
the
politics
out
of
BCR
labor
disputes."
The
report
was
prepared
by
the
regional
development
commission
and
will
be
submitted
as
a
brief
to
the
provincial
government.
Director
Harold
Mann
(Willow
River-Giscome),
one
of
the
moving
forces
behind
the
report,
said
today
the
main
need
is
for
the
government
to
put
the
railway
under
proper
management.
"We
want
the
government
to
take
it
out.
of
politics
and
put
it
under
proper
management,"
said
Mann.
"Instead
of
sitting
back
and
letting
the
railway
dictate
to
them."
The
report
recommends
the
government
establish
a
commission
to
study
labor
problems
in
the
province
and
suggests
a
new
structure
be
set
up
to
deal
with
future
labor
The
report
found
there
are
488
companies
in
Prince
George,
Bear
Lake,
Hixon
and
Mackenzie
with
more
than
9,330
employees
affected
by
labor
disputes
on
the
BCR.
This
figure
does
not
include
retail
and
commercial
sectors
which
suffer
from
high
truck-See
BCR,
page
2
VANDERHOOF
CONFLICT
0?
15'
Copy
.Prince
George,
British
Columbia
Indian
'harassment'
mediation
requested
byELISOPOW
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
B.C.
Human
Rights
Commission
chairman
Bishop
Remi
DeRoo
said
today
he
is
"deeply
concerned"
with
charges
of
native
Indian
harassment
in
Vanderhoof
and
has
called
for
a
meeting
with
the
B.C.
Police
Commission.
The
police
commission
is
a
three-member
body
which
mediates
problems
that
may
arise
between
a
community
and
a
police
force.
It
is
associated
with
the
provincial
attorney
general's
department
and
has
input
from
the
RCMP
and
municipal
police
in
B.C.
B.C
Ferry
strike
set
next
week
VICTORIA
(CP)
-
The
marine
component
of
the
British
Columbia
Government
Employees
Union
said
Thursday
it
will
strike
the
Crown-owned
B.C.
Ferries
beginning
midnight
next
Thursday
night.
Peter
Marshall,
spokesman
for
the
union,
said
the
union
will
go
on
strike
because
its
members
are
upset
at
the
government's
refusal
to
negotiate
salaries
and
allowances,
and
are
frustrated
over
management's
refusal
to
specify
what
cutbacks
in
ferry
service
will
take
effect
after
the
Sept.
6
Labor
Day
holiday.
Mr.
Marshall
said
the
membership
voted
80
per
cent
in
favor
of
strike
action
last
May
and
that
the
original
strike
notice
was
to
have
takehef
feet
June
1.
He
said
that
notice
was
cancelled
when
Hugh
Ladner
was
named
as
industrial
inquiry
commissioner
in
the
dispute,.
Mr.
Marshall
said
the
strike
notice
is
still
valid
and
will
be
exercised
next
week.
The
disputes
began
last
May
when
the
company
said
it
would
Jay
off
about
420
employees.
Local
lake
could
have
own
'Ogopogo'
by
JAMIE
LAMB
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
The
Loch
Ness
has
Nessie.
Okanagan
Lake
has
Ogopogo.
And
now,
Lake
Tagal,
60
miles
southwest
of
Prince
George,
has.
.
.Tag.
Stories
and
rumors
of
a
creature
dwelling
in
the
depths
of
Tagai
Lake
have
existed
for
a
number
of
years.
Strange
sightings
and
unexplained
"fish
stories"
are
the
only
clues
to
Tag's
existence.
Tagal
Lake
is
approximately
35-40
feet
deep
throughout,
with
the
exception
of
a
150-foot
deep
'hole'
Just
off
a
point
in
the
horseshoe-shaped
lake.
It
is
this
hole
that
is
thought
to
be
the
home
of
something
other
than
the
large
trout
which
the
fish
and
wildlife
people
say
are
in
the
lake.
An
example
of
the
Tagal
Lake
phenomenon
occurred
last
week.-
A
group
of
Prince
George
residents
were
fishing
on
the
lake.
Cindy
Sevigny,
18,
was
fishing
in
a
slow-moving
boat
when
something
took
her
15-pound
test
line
hard.
"It
definitely
wasn't
a
snag
because
it
fought,"
Cindy
said.
"It
took
the
tip
of
the
rod
straight
down
in
the
water.
I
stopped
the
boat
and
it
dove
hard
under
the
boat,
then
released
the
line.
"I
don't
know
if
it
was
a
really
big
char
or
something,"
she
said.
"It
sure
wasn't
anything
normal,"
Later
in
the
evening,
three
other
residents
were
fishing
on
the
lake.:
Phil
Streifel
said
he
saw
waves
about
100
yards
from
the
boat.
"The
lake
was
perfectly
calm
and
there
wasn't
another
boat
on
the
lake,"
he
said.
"
Yet
there
were
these
waves,"
Phil
described
what
he
saw
making
the
waves.
"It
was
about
10
feet
long,
black,
and
appeared
to
be
moving
just
under
the
surface."
Asked
if
it
could
be
anything
familiar,
such
as
a
beaver
with
a
branch.
Streifel
said,
"No,
it
was
nothing
like
that."
The
fishermen
investigated
but
the
source
of
the
waves
could
not
be
found.
Streifel
and
his
family
have
done
quite
a
bit
of
fishing.
"We
fish
regularly
and
have
fished
just
about
every
lake
around.
I
can't
explain
what
I
saw,"
he
said.
It
was
the
first
time
Streifel
had
fished
on
Tagai
Lake.
Tag,
the
mysterious
monster
of
Tagai
Lake?
A
few
more
sightings
and
the
Prince
George
area
may
have
its
own
personal
mysterious
monster,
The
meeting
was
called
after
the
human
rights
commission
studied
a
report
Thursday
from
the
human
rights
branch.
The
human
rights
branch
launched
an
investigation
into
charges
of
racism
in
the
community
after
native
Indians
complained
of
being
harassed,
beaten
and
intimidated
by'a
group
of
whites.
Indians
also
complained
that
investigation
into
the
death
of
Coreen
Thomas
July
3
has
produced
no
results.
The
21-year-old
woman
was
struck
by
a
car
as
she.
was
walking
home
to
the
Stoney
Creek
Indian
reserve,
nine
miles
from
town.
She
was
nine
months
pregnant.
Indians
now
claim
the
road
is
unsafe
and
band
members
are
afraid
to
walk
it
at
night.
DeRoo
said
in
Victoria
today
the
commission
has
requested
a
meeting
with
B.C.
Police
Commission
head
John
Hogarth
at
the
earliest
possible
date.
The'meeting
would
discuss
the
situation
at
Vanderhoof
and
other
related
matters.
Meanwhile,
Vanderhoof
coroner
Eric
Turner
said
today
either
an
inquest
or
an
inquiry
will
be
called
into
the
Thomas
death.
He
said
police
have
not
completed
their
investigation
into
the
incident
and
his
decision
will
rest
on
their
findings.
Turner
said
he
has
never
been
approached
by
members
of
the
human
rights
branch
to
give
his
view
of
the
matter.
Judge
sets
600-year
jail
term
CHICAGO
(AP)
-An
itiner-ent
factory
worker
has
been
sentenced
to
200
to
600
years
in
prison
in
the
shotgun
slaying
of
a
mail
man.
Thq
j
udge
added
that
he
wished
he
could
have
imposed
the
electric
chair.
"I
just
hope
the
Illinois
legislature
does
not
wait
too
long
before
they
give
us
judges
some
power-to
invoke
the
death
penalty
in
these
cases,"
Judge
Frank
Wilson
of
Circuit
Court
said
Thursday.
Ronald
McClellan,
32,
was
convicted
of
shooting
Robert
(Sunshine)
Dietz,
49,
in
the
back
at
close
range
with
a
sawed-off
shotgun
as
the
mailman
went
a"bout
his
rounds
on
the
North
Side
on
Sept.
12,
1974
.
Although
the
sentence
was
one
of
the
toughest
handed
down
in
Chicago
since
the
death
penalty
was
abolished,
McClellan
will
be
eligible
for
parole
in
11
years
and
nine
months.
"I
hope
the
parole
board
examines
this
very
carefully
and
considers
my
intention
that
McClellan
not
get
back
on
the
streets,"1
Wilson
said.
TODAV
CARnage
in
the
Prince
George
Killed
this
week:
Killed
this
year:
Same
date
1975:
Injured
this
week;
Injured
this
year:
THE
WEATHER
j
Cloudy
skies
and
rain
are
predicted
for
today
and
Saturday.
Rainfall
recorded
for
Thursday
was
4.7
mm.
Thursday's
high
was
23
with
an
overnight
low
of
12,
Low
today!
10
with
a
high
of
19
predicted.
On
Aug.
13,
1975,
the
high
was
23;
the
low,
3.
Clouds,
showers
and
a
few
sunny
periods
are
predicted
for
the
next
few
days.
NOW
HEAR
14
27
12
232
To
same
date
1975:
370
FEATURED
INSIDE
City
merchants
have
been
told
to
get
aggressive
if
they
want
a
share
of
the
money
generated
by
the
proposed
development
in
northeastern
B.C.
Page
3.
It
cost
the
U.S.
$2
million
to
convict
three
men
already
in
jail.
Page
7.
Business,
8;
Church,
22;
Classified,
26-39;
Comics,
21;
Editorial,
4;
Entertainment,
16-21;
International,
5,
7;
Home
and
Family,
10-11;
Horoscopes,
17;
Local
and
Provincial,
3;
National,
2;
Sports,.
13-15;
Television,
19-20.
Temperatures
page
2
THIS
0
The
1S76
Prince
George
Exhibition
is
only
in
its
second
day
today
but
has
already
gone
through
more
than
400
stuffed
animal
prizes
at
the
various
games
in
the
midway.
One
young
fellow
left
the
grounds
Thursday
carrying
eight
stuffed
toys
and
a
girl
on
either
arm.
Wilbert
and
Marie
Bittner
thought
they
might
be
the
hosts
of
a
guess-who's-coming-to-breakfast
scene
when
they
were
awakened
this
morning
by
the
sound
of
horns.
It's
Friday
the
13th
and
their
24th
wedding
anniversary
so
they
thought
someone
might
be
arriving
early
to
help
themcelebrate.
It
took
about
10
minutes
before
the
Bittners
realized
the
noise-was.
being
caused
by
their
dog
his
paw
was
on
the
horn
of
a
mini
bike.
Frustrated
motorists
trying
to
cross
Ospika
Boulevard
on
18th
Avenue
to
get
to
the
Exhibition
Grounds
this
week
have
got
the
message
through
to
city
hall.
City
engineer
Ernie
Obst
said
today
the
intersection
has
been
changed
to
a
four-way
stop
for
the
remaining
days
of
the
Exhibition
so
people
using
the
cross
street
can
cross
busy
Ospika.'