A
SUMMER
OF
NATURAL
CATASTROPHES
World
takes
battering
as
disaster
list
grows
It
has
been
a
summer
of
natural
catastrophes
in
many
sections
northeast
corner.
The
city
of
Tangshan
was
devastated,
and
nent.
More
than
70,000
residents
have
been
evacuated
from
City,
slammed
into
the
Connecticut
coast
and
dumped
torrential
of
the
world:
lesser
damage
was
inflicted
on
Tientsin
and
Peking.
No
official
the
area
around
the
mountain.
rains
on
central
New
England
on
Aug.
10.
Three
deaths
FLOODS
were
attributed
to
the
storm
and
damage
was
estimated
at
Two
major
tremors,
EARTHQUAKES
the
worst
in
Philippine
history,
struck
casualty
reports
have
been
issued,
but
witnesses
and
A
12-foot
wall
of
water
surged
down
the
Colorado
River's
some
$20
million.
The
same
day,
Typhoon
Billie
killed
four
the
southern
islands
of
the
archipelago
Monday
night
and
experts
believe
tensof
thousands
of
people
were
killed.
Big
Thompson
Canyon
on
July
31,
catching
hundreds
of
residents
persons
and
injured
many
others
on
Taiwan.
Almost
1,000
and
tourists
off-guard.
The
number
of
bodies
recovered
homes
were
damaged.
today.
Authorities
report
at
least
811
persons
dead,
249
missing
VOLCANO"
as
of
today
was
110.
Damage
estimates
range
from
$25
million
and
251
injured,
Giant
waves
caused
many
of
the
casualties.
La
Soufriere,
a
4,813-foot
volcano
on
the
French
Caribbean
to
$50
million.
DROUGHT
island
of
Guadeloupe,
has
been
rumbling
and
belching
gas
In
South
Korea,
floods
and
landslides
caused
by
torrential
A
months-long
drought
has
parched
much
of
Europe.
A
strong
quake
was
also
recorded
in
central
China
on
Monday
and
ash
for
the
past
month.
A
deafening
eruption
occurred
rains
last
week
have
taken
at
least
34
lives.
Authorities
have
begun
water
rationing
in
some
parts
of
Britain,
night.
But
there
are
no
reports
on
casualties
or
damage.
Monday
night,
but
did
not
cause
major
damage.
Scientists
HURRICANE-TYPHOON
and
grain
and
other
harvests
will
fall
far
short
of
predictions
On
July
28,
two
major
shocks
hit
China's
heavily-populated
say
they
cannot
predict
whether
further
eruptions
are
immir
Hurricane
Belle
struck
Long
Island
just
east
of
New
York
in
many
western
European
countries.
1
,000
missing
as
earthquake
rocks
Phillipines
MANILA
(AP)
More
than
1,000
persons
were
reported
dead
or
missing
today
in
the
worst
earthquakes
in
Philippine
history.
;
The
National
Disaster
Coordinating
Centre
reported
tonight
that
at
least
811
dead
have
been
confirmed,
249
were
'missing
and
251
were
injured
in
two
major
quakes
that
hit
TODAY
"A
reporter
from
'Nude
World'
to
see
you,
Mr.
President!"
FEATURED
INSIDE
Restricted
picketing
in
the
construction
industry
has
been
urged
in
a
special
report.
Page
7.
Fly
ash?
That's
no
problem
here,
the
city
engineer
says.
Page
3.
Republicans
have
been
urged
to
forget
the.
scandals
of
the
Nixon
era
and
concentrate
on
the
issues
at
hand
and
the
problem
of
selecting
a
leader
who
will
lead
them
to
victory
in
the
U.S.
presidental
election.
Page
5.
Spruce
Capital
Boxing
Club
members
Laurie
Mann
and
Brian
Wise
took
gold
and
silver
medals
at
a
national
competition
in
Edmonton
Monday.
Page
13.
Business,
8;
Classified,
15-23;
Comics,
10;
Editorial,
4;
Home
and
Family,
11;
Horoscopes,
9;
International,
5;
Local
and
Provincial,
3,
7;
National,
2;
Sports,
13-14;
Television,
10.
THE
WEATHER
Cloudy
skies,
a
few
sunny
periods
and
showers
are
predicted
for
today
and
Wednesday.
Rainfall
recorded
for
Mon
day
was
.8
mm.
Monday
s
high
was
20,
with
an
overnight
low
of
12.
Low
today,
8,
with
a
high
of
18
predicted.
On
Aug.
17,
1975,
the
high
was
17;
the
low,
12.
Sunny
skies
with
cloudy
periods
are
predicted
for
the
next
few
days.
the
southern
Philippines
just
after
midnight
Monday
night
and
just
after
noon
today.
.
Unofficial
counts
raised
the
death
toll
to
917,
with
more
than
500
injured
and
400
missing.
Among
the
missing
were
11
children
swept
away
by
24-foo't
waves
caused
by
the
quake.
The
Philippine
Disaster
J
Temperatures
page
2
NOW
HEAR
THIS
q
The
strange
yellow
rail
car
on
a
siding
near
the
Canadian
Railways
station
is
not
a
museum
piece
dropped
off
by
the
provincial
museum
train
when
it
departed
last
month.
The
Sperry
Rail
way
car
is
a
rail-testing,
self-driven
car
which
gives
an
ultra-sonic
evaluation
of
rails
it
passes
over
and
allows
engineers
to
judge
when
and
where
rails
need
replacement.
The
car
is
owned
by
Sperry-Rand,
an
American
firm,
and
is
leased
by
railways
for
the
testing.
It
has
finished
its
job
with
the
CNR
here
and
is
going
over
to
the
British
Columbia
Railway
to
do
the
same
job.
There's
some
well-dressed
garbagemen
In
town
today.
A
city
man
dutifully
took
out
the
garbage
at
the
appointed
time.
Later,
in
the
laundromat,
he
discovered
to
his
horror
that
he
had
confused
the
green
plastic
bag
of
laundry
with
the
green
plastic
bag
of
trash.
The
Inn
of
the
North
is
getting
lots
of
comments
about
its
parking
lot
sign
which
states,
"Our
beds
come
with
many
extras".
These
extras
are
hotel
facilities
only,
the
assistant
manager
explained.
Mayor
Harold
Moffat,
like
the
King
of
Id,
must
suffer
constantly
at
being
cut
down
to
size
from
some
wit
from
his
court.
This
week's,
from
Aid.
Lome
McCuish:
"That's
about
five
feet,"
mulled
the
mayor
during
a
discussion.
"From
fingertip
to
fingertip,"
he
said,
stretching
out
his
arms.
"Or
from
head
to
toe,
maybe,"
dryly
commented
McCuish.
Centre
said
1
,290
families
were
homeless
and
315
buildings,
bridges
and
other
structures
were
destroyed
in
only
one
of
the
areas
hit
by
the
quake,
southwestern
Mindanao.
A
major
earth
tremor
also
hit
central
China
Monday
night,
but.
reports
from
the
area
did
not
mention
damage
or
casualties.
The
first
quake
in
the
southern
Philippines
occurred
at
12:13
a.m.,
when
most
people
were
asleep,
It
sent
high
waves
crashing
onto
the
southern
most
coast,
sweeping
away
fishermen's
homes,
and
collapsed
schools,
hotels
and
stores
on
Mindanao,
the
Philippines'
largest
southern
island.
The
U.S.
National
Earthquake
Information
Centre
in
Golden,
Colo.,
recorded
the
first
quake
at
8.0
on
the
Richter
Scale,
0.2
less
than
the
July
28
quake
that
devastated
the
Tangshan
area
of
northeast
China.
Aftershocks
continued
through
the
morning.
The
Honolulu
Observatory
of
the
International
Tsunami
Information
Centre
recorded
another
major
tremor
in
the-area
at
6.8
Richter
shortly
after
noon.
Olympic
defector
to
leave
OTTAWA
(CP)
Sergei
Nemtsanov,
the
Soviet
diver
who
defected
during
the
Olympic
Games,
has
told
immigration
department
officials
he
intends
to
return
home,
a
department
spokesman
said
today.
Nemtsanov,
17,
declared
his
"Intention
in
a
meeting
withoffi-cials
In
Montreal
Monday
evening
but
added
he
wanted
"to
sleepon
it,"
the
spokesman
said.
The
immigration
officer
that
met
Nemtsanov
Monday
was
the
same
official
who
attended
a
meeting
July
31
between
the
diver
and
Soviet
embassy
staff.
The
department
spokesman
said
the
officer
told
Nemtsanov
the
next
step
is
up
to
him
and
"we're
waiting
to
hear
from
him
again."
If
Nemtsanov
decides
to
return
to
the
Soviet
Union,
it
would
be
up
to
him
how
he
went,
the
spokesman
said.
He
has
been
granted
a
minister's
permit
that
expires
at
the
end
of
January,
After
that
he
could
apply
for
refugee
orlanded
immigrant
status.
Nemtsanov's
Sisappearance
from
the
Soviet
delegation
in
the
Olympic
Village
angered
Russian
officials
who
said
he
had
been
kidnapped
and
demanded
the
Canadian
government
return
him
because
he
was
only
17,
City
books
will
balance
In
fact,
the
city
is
living
well
within
its
means,
contrary
to
indications
last
month
that
serious
overspending
was
occurring,
city
treasurer
Chuck
Schattenkirk
told
council
Monday,
,
"We
have
met
and
are
meeting
the
six-month
budget
projections,"
Schattenkirk
said.
He
blamed
human
error
for
Improperly
summing
up
the
cost
of
paying
city
employees.
Apparently,
he
said,
retroactive
pay
adjustments
covering
January
to
July,
the
period
of
(he
budget
review
were
added
into
the
comouter
program
twice,
"It
was
a
human
error;
but
a
computer
problem,"
he
said.
Schattenkirk
said
the
city's
date
processing
manager
was
absent
at
the
time
or
the
error
likely
would
have
been
spotted
immediately,
Improper
costing
attribution
The
TWO
NEW
ROUTES
Bus
service
expands
by
TOM
NIXON
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
City
bus
service
was
expanded
25
per
cent
Monday
with
the
establishment
of
two
new
bus
routes
and
acquisition
of
a
new
bus
from
the
provincial
transit
authority.
With
relatively
little
debate
compared
to
past
years,
council
approved
an
$86,000
subsidy
for
Prince
George
Transit
and
Charter
Ltd.,
to
operate
the
city
bus
service
for
the
next
year.
Included
in
the
subsidy,
half
of
the
total
sum
paid
by
the
private
company
to
run
the
service,
was
$10,000
to
create
a
new
route
serving
College
Heights
and
another
route
to
also
has
mixed
up
the
budgeting
system
slightly,
the
treasurer
said,
and
when
proper
departments
and
projects
are
billed
for
costs
it's
likely
some
other
over-runs
will
be'
corrected.
1
7
MISSING
Sea
search
starts
PERCE,
Que.
(CP)
-
Coast
Guard
personnel
and
local
fishermen
were
searching
today
for
11
persons
who
disappeared
Monday
on
a
boat
trip
to
Bonaven(ure
Island
in
the
Gulf
of
St.
Lawrence,
350
miles
northeast
of
Quebec
City,
Police
said
the
group,
Including
nine
tourists
from
France
and
two
Quebecers,
set
out
in
a
launch
powered
by
a
15-
Citizen
.Tuesday,
August
17,
1976
A
gaping
hole
in
tanker
truck
shows
the
force
of
the
explosion
that
injured
one
man
and
Tank
blew
out
windows
up
to
100
feet
away
Monday.
Caroll
William
Grant
suffered
a
broken
explodes
,arm,
broken
pelvis
and
burns
when
sparks
from
the
drill
he
was
using
ignited
fumes
in
the
fuel
tank.
The
accident
occurred
at
Mountain
Truck
Service
on
Third
Avenue.
serve
new
subdivisions
between
Tabor
Boulevard
and
the
base
of
Cranbrook
Hill.
The
city
received
a
letter
last
week
from
Municipal
Affairs
Minister
Hugh
Curtis
saying
a
new
$62,000
bus
is
available
in
Vancouver
for
Prince
George.
City
manager
Chester
Jef-fery
told
council
Curtis
has
also
promised
that
three
more
buses
will
be
available
to
the
city
by
the
end
of
the
year.
The
new
routes
expected
to
be
in
operation
by
October
make
buses'available
to
about
3,000
people
in
College
Heights
and
about
5,000
in
the
Lakewood-Foothills-Highland
Park
loop.
The
College
Heights
service
Schattenkirk
said
the
detailed
review
of
the
budget
by
his
accountants
will
continue
in
order
to
keep
close
watch
on
expenditure
and
ensure
the
budget
balances
at
year
end
with
the
project
surplus
Intact.
horsepower
motor
about
4
p.m.
EDT
Monday
for
a
trip
which
usually
takes
between
1
Vi
and
two
hours.
They
were
last
seen
by
a
lighthouse
keeper
about
6:30
p.m.
Monday.
Three
ships
and
a
helicopter
from
the
Canadian
Coast
Guard
were.
Involved
in
the
search,
along
with
several
fishermen.
Vol.
20
;
No.
158
Prince
will
be
hourly,
seven
hours-a-day
running
from
the
down
town
terminus
along
Massey
to
Pine
Centre,
along
West-wood
to
Ferry,
then
up
Highway
16
to
Domano
Boulevard,
down
College
to
Simon
Fraser
and
the
southerly
part
of
College
Heights.
The
route
returns
along
Simon
Fraser,
down
Cowart
Road
and
returns
to
the
city
via
Westwood
and(
Massey.
The
other
new
route
is
an
isolated
loop
through
the
Foothills
subdivisions
with
an
interchange
at
Pine
Centre.
The
main
streets
included
in
the
loop
are
Westwood,
the
Bypass,
15th
Avenue,
Fifth
Avenue
and
Ospika
and
Tabor
Boulevards.
Service
will
be
half-hourly.
News
that
three
additional
buses
might
be
granted
the
city,
bringing
the
total
number
of
buses
in
service
to
seven,
was
not
welcomed
by
Mayor
Harold
Moffat.
"That
would
cost
us
about
$125,000,"
he
said.
"We
should
tell
them
we
don't
want
any
more
until
we
have
the
statistics
to
prove
they
will
be
used."
"I
think
people
will
get
tired
of
paying
$125,000
for
these
people
who
ride
buses."
According
to
costs
provided
by
Prince
George
Transit,
the
three
additional
buses
if
operated
like
the
current
three
city
buses
would
cost
the
city
$45,000
in
additional
subsidy.
The
city
administration
was
ordered
to
ask
Curtis
when
the
provincial
transit
study
team
will
be
available
to
help
plan
new
routes
for
the
city
and
also
to
ask
P.G.
Transit
manager
Alf
Nelson
to
provide
a
report
on
new
routes
he
believes
are
needed.
George,
British
Columbia
ENOUGH
Ford
KANSAS
CITY,
Mo.
(
AP)
President
Ford's
total
of
committed
delegates
edged
today
past
the
1,130
needed
to
win
the
Republican
presidential
nomination,
but
he
still
must
hang
on
to
them
through
another
day
of
political
rough-housing
before
victory
over
Ronald
Reagan
can
be
certain.
Newly-announced
commitments
of
three
delegates
from
West
Virginia
and
one
from
Pennsylvania
moved
Ford's
total
to
1,131
in
the
continuing
Associated
Press
poll
of
Republican
convention
delegates
who
are
legally
bound
or
publicly
committed.
Reagan
had
1,036
delegates
and
92
still
say
they
are
uncommitted.
Only
939
of
the
convention's
2,259
delegates
are
legally
bound
by
state
laws,
however.
Any
of
the
rest,
including
the
764
Ford
backers
who
are
not
bound,
can
change
their
minds
as
often
as
they
wish
before
the
Wednesday
night
roll
call.
Earlier
story,
page
5
Cement
masons7
walkout
averted
VANCOUVER
(CP)
-
The
Construction
Labor
Relations
Association
and
the
Cement
Masons
Union
Monday
signed
a
memorandum
of
agreement,
averting
another
possible
disruption
in
the
province's
construction
industry.
Two
charged
with
wounding
Two
Prince
George
men
were
scheduled
to
appear
in
court
today
on
charges
of
wounding
with
intent
in
connection
with
a
fight
early
today
outside
the
McDonald
Hotel.
Franz
Factor
and
Alfred
Milne
were
arrested
after
two
other
men
were
sent
to
hospital
with
cuts
to
the
head.
One
man
was
treated
and
released,
while
the
other
remains
in
hospital.
The
names
of
those
injured
have
not
been
released..
15'
Copy-
Citizen
photo
by
Tim
Swanky
DELEGATES
win
seen
Frank
Stevens,
head
of
the
union,
had
said
cement
masons
would
be
off
the
job
Tuesday
or
Wednesday
at
the
latest.
He
said
Monday,
after
meeting
with
CLRA,
that
an
agreement
was
reached
following
a
couple
of
breakthroughs,
but
he
would
not
disclose
what
those
breakthroughs
were.
Mr,
Stevens
said
he
will
recommend
that
the
union
accept
the
memorandum
as
soon
as
a
meeting
is
arranged.
He
said
the
memorandum
basically
embraces
the
Kin-naird
report,
which
ended
a
37day
strike-lockout
in
the
construction
industry
just
ovef
a
week
ago.
The
cement
masons
had
been
upset
over
a
proposed
wage
discrepancy
between
their
union
and
the
iron
workers.
See
also
page
7