The
Citizen
15'
Copy
Monday,
August
16,
1976,
Vol.
20;
No.
i57
Prince
George,
British
Columbia
'PAST
THE
POINT
OF
NO
RETURN'
Thousan
ds
flee
volcano
zone
'Catastrophic7
eruption
seen
POINTE-A-PITRE,
Guadeloupe
(
AP)
-
La
Soufriere
volcano,
spewing
smoke
and
dust,
will
explode
in
a
"catastrophic"
eruption
in
the
next
week
to
15
days,
a
French
scientist
said
today.
But
because
of
a
mass
evacuation,
no
loss
of
life
is
expected.
The
scientist,
Charles
Brousse
of
the
University
of
Paris,
said
a
warningSunday
that
the
eruption
would
occur
in
a
matter
of
hours
was
issued
to
ensure
that
all
72,000
residents
left
the
area
around
the
4,813-foot
peak.
Broadcasting
from
a
ship
off
the
coast,
Brousse
warned
that
the
eruption
is
"now
an
inexorable
process;
we
have
gone
past
the
point
of
no
return."
He
predicted
that
It
will
have
at
least
the
force
of
the
1902
eruption
of
Mount
Pelee,
on
Martinique,
which
killed
more
than
30,000
people
and
destroyed
the
town
of
St.
Pierre!
"However,
ve
have
cleared
an
area
of
sufficient
size
so
that
the
eruption
could
be
completely
without
loss
of
life,"
he
said.
La
Soufriere,
French
for
the
sulphur
mine,
last
erupted
in
1956,
but
there
was
no
lava
flow
and
no
one
was
injured.
Five
weeks
ago,
on
July
8,
a
crack
opened
1
,500
feet
below
the
cone
and
began
belching
foul
gas,
steam,
ash,
stones
and
mud.
The
activity
intensified
Thursday,
and
30,000
persons
living
nearest
were
ordered
to
leave.
Then
on
Sunday
the
team
of
about
12
vol-canologists
keeping
a
close
watchon
the
situation
reported
the
presence
in
the
vapor
of
ash
from
much
deeper
in
the
earth.
They
said
it
indicated
an
eruption
was
imminent.
Evacuation
of
the
rest
of
the
danger
zone
was
ordered.
An
observer
who
flew
over
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the
volcano
Sunday
reported:
"I
could
see
white
smoke
coming
up
from
at
least
five
different
places,
and
even
from
the
plane
the
smell
of
sulphur
was
very
strong."
The
narrow
two-lane
highway
running
north
to
Pointe-a-Pitre,
the
island's
biggest
city,
was
jammed
with
cars
and
buses
loaded
with
fleeing
families
.
Motorcycle
gang
takes
3
hostages
MONTREAL
(CP)
-
Police
said
24
members
of
a
motorcycle
gang
were
arrested
Sunday
after
they
wrecked
a
hotel
and
held
the
owner's
wife
and
daughters
hostage
near
Papineauville,70
miles
westof
Montreal.
A
police
spokesman
said
25
members
of
the
Quebec
Provincial
Police
'riot
squad
were
called
in
from
Montreal
to
assist
20
other
of
ficersin
stopping
the
vandalism.
The
spokesman
said
the
trouble
began
Saturday
when
members
of
the
Popeyes
motorcycle
gang
converged
on
the
Hotel
des
Pins
near
the
village
of
St.
Andre
Avellin.
They
came
from
several
locations
in
the
province
for
what
one
policeman
described
as
a
weekend
festival
for
bikers.
The
spokesman
said
the
gang
started
wrecking
the
hotel
with
axes
and
crowbars
TODAY
'You'll
never
guess
who
I
Just
ran
into!'
Major
quake
shakes
China
GOLDEN,
Colo.
(AP)
United
States
government
seismographs
recorded
a
major
earthquake
today
on
the
Chinese
mainland,
but
geophysicists
said
it
was
almost
950
miles
from
the
great
earthquake
in
China
last
month.
Waverly
Person,
cist
with
the
National
Earthquake
Information
Service,
said
the
latest
tremor
measured
6.9
on
the
Richter
scale.
It
occurred
at
10
:
07
a.m.
EDT.
Person
said
the
quake
was
250
miles
north
of
Chunking
near
the
Kansu-Szechwan
province
boundary.
On
July
27,
an
earthquake
of
8.2
magnitude
occurred
near
China's
eastern
coast,
northeast
of
today's
tremor.
'On
the
Richter
scale,
every
increase
of
one
number,
say
from
magnitude
5.5
to
magnitude
6.5,
means
the
ground
motion
Js
10
times
greater.
Some
experts
say
the
actual
amount
of
energy
released
may
be
30
times
greater.
A
seven
reading
is
a
"major
earthquake,
capable
of
heavy
damage;
eight
is
a
"great"
earthquake,
capable
of
tremendous,
damage,
early
Sunday
morning
after
cutting
the
hotel's
telephone
lines
and
holding
the
owner's
wife
and
two
daughters
as
hostages.
The
owner
was
away
on
business
at
the
time.
Many
shots
were
fired
and
at
least
one
man
was
injured
by
gunfire.
A
workman
was
rushed
to
Prince
George
Regional
Hospital
at
noon
today
after
being
injured
in
an
explosion
that
occurred
while
he
was
welding
a
piece
onto
a
fuel
tanker
truck.
Officials
at
Mountain
Truck
Service
on
Third
Avenue
identified
the
man
as
Bill
Grant,
of
Prince
George,
The
explosion
blew
out
windows
100
feet
away.
At
presstlme,
the
hospital
had
not
listed
the
man's
condition.
Bringing
REPUBLICAN
SHOWDOWN
It's
been
a
rainy
summer
for
area
farmers
that's
why
you'll
see
farmers
taking'advantage
of
every
dry
day
in
August
to
bring
in
the
crop.
At
the
Jim
Dillman
Ford's
qrip
weak
KANSAS
CITY,
Mo.
(CP)
Arch-conservative
Senator
James
Buckley
of
New
York
announced
today
he
will
not
stand
as
"a
Republican
candidate
for
the
U.S.
presidency,
a
move
that
may
reduce
the
deep
split
within
the
party.
"I
have
not
been
a
candidate
for
president,
I
am
not
a
candidate
for
president
and
I
will
not
be
a
candidate
for
anything
other
than
the
United
States
Senate,"
Buckley
said
at
a
news
conference.
KANSAS
CITY,
Mo.
(CP)
-Shadowed
by
the
ghost
of
political
scandal
and
split
by
diverging
ideologies,
the
Republican
national
convention
opens
its
doors
today,
seeking
a
leader
who
can
retain
the
White
House
next
November.
So
far,
in
the
struggle
between
President
Gerald
Ford
and
California
challenger
Ronald
Reagan,
the
former
Michigan
congressman
holds
the
edge.
But
Ford's
grip
is
so
weak
that
a
mere
handful
of
the
2,259
delegates
can
decide
the
outcome
Wednesday
night.
As
both
sides
courted
uncommitted
delegates,
Ford
won
a
strategic
pre-convention
battle
Sunday
when
his
party
committee
forces
defeated
an
attempt
to
make
him
disclose
his
choice
for
a
running-mate
12
hours
before
voting
for
the
presidential
nomination
takes
place.
Reagan
had
selected
the
liberal-leaning
Senator
in
the
crop
Richard
Schweiker
of
Pennsylvania
as
his
vice-presidential
partner
and
this
had
angered
the
party
right-wing
which
had
strongly
backed
the
former
California
governor.
'Ford
supporters
said
that
Reagan's
attempt
to
force
the
president
to
disclose
his
own
choice
was
a
desperate
attempt
to
shake
Ford's
mar-
FORD
UEAGAN
FEATURED
INSIDE)
A
pictorial
look
at
the
Prince
George
Exhibition.
Page
Giscome,
the
town
that
is
no
more,
revisited.
Page
3.
A
Tokyo
golfer
now
playing
In
White
Rock
surprised
.everyone
by
winning
the
women's
Simon
Fraser
tournament
here
during
the
weekend.
Page
9.
Seven
staff
members
in
the
hospital
isolated
for
Lassa
fever
victims,
have
developed
symptoms
of
the
disease.
Page
2.
Business,
6;
Classified,
23-31;
Comics,
22;
Entertainment,
22-23
;
Home
and
Family,
18-19
;
I
loroscopes,
8
;
Local
and
Provincial,
3,
7;
National,
2;
Sports,
9-11;
Television,
22.
gin.
The
Reagan
proposal
was
beaten
by
a
committee
vote
of
59
to
44.
Unofficial
tallies
show
Ford
has
1,109
delegate
votes
against
1,033
for
Reagan
with
117
uncommitted.
The
winner
needs
a
simple
majority
of
1,130.
Some
senior
Republicans
predict
this
may
turn
out
to
be
one
of
the
bloodiest
conventions
in
years
and
may
leave
the
party
sharply
divided
in
facing
the
Democrat's
candidate,
Jimmy
Carter.
Meanwhile,
the
party
also
had
to
consider
the
presidential
campaign
itself
and
the
expectancy
that
the
political
scandal
which
led
to
the
resignation
of
Richard
Nixon
will
be
raked
up
by
the
Democrats,
NEW
YORK
(AP)
-
President
Ford
and
Ronald
Reagan
have
agreed
secretly
to
hold
a
Wednesday
night
"kiss
and
make-up"
meeting
after
one
of
them
has
won
the
Republican
presidential
nomination,
Newsweek
magazine
says.
A
compact
was
negotiated
between
"emissaries
from
the
two
camps"
as
a
show
of
unity
immediately
following
the
selection
of
the
Republican
presidential
candidate
at
the
party
convention
in
Kansas
City,
Mo.,
the
magazine
says.
Newsweek
says
the
nomination
winner
will
"arrive
at
the
loser's
suite
for
a
well-photographed
show
of
unity
and
a
discussion
-on
a
vice-presidential
nominee."
(
THE
WEATHER
)
Afternoon
cloudy
periods
and
a
few
showers
are
predicted
for
today,
Rainfall
recorded
for
Saturday
was
1.8
mm,
and
Sunday
was
nil.
Sunday's
high
was
21
with
an
overnight
low
of
9.
Low
today,
9,
with
a
high
of
20.
On
August
16,
1975
the
high-was
17;
the
low,
12.
Cloudy
skies
with
the
risk
of
a
few
showers
and
a
high
of
22
are
predicted
for
Tuesday.
Temperatures
page
2
TURTLE
Fred
plods
to
win
BOISSEVAIN
BOISSEVAIN,
,
Man
Man.
.
(
(CP)
CP
)
-
A
A
western
western
painted
painted
turt
turtle
named
Fat
Freddie
Funsnot
retained
Canada's
hold
on
the
international
turtle
derby
crown
during
the
weekend
at
this
southwestern
Manitoba
town.
Fat
Freddie
plodded
to
the
finish
line
in
37
seconds
and
won
$100
or
owner
Fred
Glazerman,
who
donated
it
back
to
the
derby
committee.
Fastest
time
of
the
weekend
was
set
by
a
California
entry
named
Zorro
who
won
the
U.S..final
in
23.4
seconds.
But
Zorro,
a
red-eared
slider
owned
by
Ernie
McPherson'of
Concord,
Calif.,
couldn't
get
untracked
against
Fat
Freddie
in
the
international
event.
The
turtles
are
released
from
an
electric
starting
,gate
in
the
centre
of
a
50-foot
circle.
First
to
reach
the
perimeter
is
the
winner.
One-day
definite
TORONTO
(CP)
-
Joe
Morris,
president
of
the
Canadian
Labor
Congress,
says
threats
of
disciplinary
action
will
not
stop
workers
from
taking
part
in
the
Oct,
14
general
work
stoppage.
'"The
decision
has
been
made
by
the
delegates
and
it
will
be
carried
out,"
Mr.
Morris
said
in
a
telephone
interview
Sunday.
The
Canadian
Manufacturers
Association
last
week
urged
its
members
to
seek;
injunctions,
sue
unions
for
damages
resulting
from
loss
of
production
and
take
disciplinary
action
against
individual
workers.
Association
president
Rod-rigue
Bilodeau
has
said
the
planned
stoppage
to
protest
the
federal
anti-inflation
program
is
an
illegal
strike.
Citizen
photo
by
Dave
Milne"
farm
on
Highway
16
West,
they're
busy
bringing
in
the
hay
with
the
aid
of
a
round
baler.
The
bales
resemble
a
train
of
covered
wagons
stretching
to
the
horizon.
CHAMP
protest
-Morris
But
Mr.
Morris
said
the
action
is
not
a
strike
but
a
'day
of
protest.
''And
there
is
nothing
in
our
laws
about
protesting
against
laws,
That's
what
I
thought
democracy
was
all
about."
Asked
if
the
congress
was
aware
that
damage1
suits
might
be
filed
for
losses
due
to
the
stoppage,
Mr.
Morris
said,
"the
delegates
knew
what
they
were
doing."
Union
leaders
representing
2.3
million
workers
decided
Thursday
to
back
the
protest
which
was
decided
upon
by
the
congress
last
May,
If
individual,
workers
are'
penalized
"that
problem
will
be
solved
when
the
time
comes,"
Mr.
Morris
said.
Ferry
strike
shelved
VANCOUVER
(CP)
-
A
scheduled
strike
by
licenced
employees
on
British
Columbia
Ferries
was
called
off
Sunday
after
the
executive
of
the
marine
component
of
the
B.C.
Government
Employees
Union
voted
Sunday
to
withdraw
a
strike
recommendation.
Peter
Marshall,
spokesman
for
the.500
licenced
ferry
workers,
said
the
strike
recommendation
was
withdrawn
because
the
main
BCGEU
executive-representing
35,000
employees
had
agreed
to
take
no
job
action
until
a
referendum
was
held
on
the
latest
government
wage
proposals.
The
licenced
ferry
workers'
leaders
said
they
were
not
aware
of
this
commitment
when
the
strike
recommendation
was
made.
Mr,
Marshall
said
the
workers
were
scheduled
to
strike,
the
Crown-owned
ferry
system
midnight
Thursday
night
because
Transport
Minister
Jack
Davis
has
refused
to
disclose
how
many
layoffs
will
be;
made
after
the
Sept.
6
Labor-Day
holiday
weekend.
The
dispute-began
in
May
when
B.C.
Ferries
said
it
would
lay
off
about
420
employees
in
an
economy'
move.
The
membership
in
the
marine
component
of
the
BCGEU
voted
80
per
cent
to"
strike.
A
June
1
strike
was
canv
celled
when
Hugh
Ladner
was;
named
industrial
inquiry
com-1
missioner
in
the
dispute.
NOW
HEAR
THIS)
The
record
attendance
of
this
year's
exhibition
seems
to
have
created
a
problem,
according
to
one
Prince
George,
resident.
She
says
there
should
have
been
someone
directing
traffic
for
parking
at
the
grounds
because
"
we
turned
to
our
car
Friday
evening
only
to
find
our
tires
flat
and
a
note
saying
'Have
fun
with
your
tires
for
blocking
me
in.'"
A
woman
visiting
the
home
of
friends
for
the
first
time
Sunday
was
embarrassed
within
her
first
five
minutes
in
the
house.
She
managed
to
lock
herself
in
the
bathroom
without
locking
the
door.
It
took
three
men
and
a
screwdriver
to
pry
open
the
door
and
let
the
red-faced
woman
out.
The
Prince
George
forest
service
has
closed
the
North
Fraser
Hoad
until
Sunday,
The
road
is
north
of
Giscome
and
leads
to
Averil
Lake
on
the
Boundary
Lakes
system.
The
closure
will
permit
blasting
in
the
region.