f
lightly
foliage
Volcano
erupts;
two
hurt
POINTE-A-PITRE,
Guadeloupe
(CP)
A
vapor
explosion
inside
the
Soufriere
volcano
showered
12
scientists
with
rocks
and
injured
two
oi
them,
officials
on
this
French
Caribbean
island
reported.
The
explosion
Monday
was
the
largest
since
the
4,813-foot-high
volcano
began
emitting
sulphurous
fumes
and
ashes
nearly
eight
weeks
ago.
But
volcano
experts
did
not
classify
the
blast
as
an
eruption.
It
caught
11
French
scientists
and
one
Briton
near
the
rim
of
the
fissure
that
opened
in
the
side
of
the
volcano
on
July
8.
Falling
rocks
blocked
the
road
down
from
the
peak,
and
two
helicopters
rescued
the
scientists.
"We
might
have
been
killed
if
it
had
not
been
for
our
helmets,"
said
Haroun
Tazieff,
one
of
France's
leading
vol-canologists.
Francois
Le
Guern
suffered
a
back
injury
and
a
scientist
named
Bof
got
a
cut
on
a
thigh.
Both
were
reported
in
satisfactory
condition.
"It
was
hell,".
Tazieff
said.
"Several
times
I
thought
we
were
finished."
He
said
they
had
just
reached
the
summit
when
the
volcano
burst
into
activity,
shooting
out
a
column
of
black
smoke
and
ash.
U.K.
weather
linked
to
ours
VANCOUVER
(CP)
-
A
system
of
air
currents
18,000
feet
above
sea
level
has
brought
Britain
its
worst
drought
and
British
Columbia
Its
dreariest
summer
since
1955,
Sid
Ramsden
of
the
weather
office
said
Monday,
Mr.
Ramsden
said
the
system
has
been
stationary
for
months
above
the
earth's
northern
hemisphere
and
this
Immobility
has
caused
unseasonal
weather
here
since
the
beginning
of
March.
Citizen
photo
by
Lcn
Tenliet
A
crane
hoists
tree
to
decorate
the
second
storey
of
the
patio
overhang
which
will
serve
as
a
recreation
area
in
the
new
$5.5
million
Permanent
Tower
on
Third
Avenue.
Tenants
are
expected
to
occupy
the
building
by
Nov.
1
"if
the
lockout
currently
brewing
doesn't
delay
progress,"
says
a
construction
spokesman.
"Otherwise,
every
day
which
is
lost
to
the
strike
will
be
added
on
to
the
completion
date."
POLARIS
STEEL
'Mini-mill'
study
slated
by
ELI
SOPOW
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
Dick
Furby,
president
of
Polaris
Steel,
says
the
Prince
George
company
will
start
major
engineering
studies
to
build
a
150
to
200-ton-per-year
mini
steel
mill
north
of
here.
Furby
told
a
press
conference
here
today
that
a
contract
will
be
signed
Sept.
15
with
a
major
engineering
firm
to
do
the
study
for
the
mill,
which,
would
hire
350
to
500
workers.
Either
Kaiser
Engineering,
Dravo
Engineering
or
Voest
Alpine
engineering
of
Austria
will
do
the
three-month
study
LONDON
(AP)-Sixty
per-sons
began
appearing
in
court
today
after
the
annual
Calypso
Carnival
in
London's
Notting
Hill
district
ended
in
rioting
and
running
street
battles
between
police
and
civilians
in
the
neighborhood
of
West
Indian
immigrants.
Scotland
Yard
reported
more
than
450
persons
injured,
three
shops
looted
and
45
vehicles
and
31
shops,
Offices
and
public
facilities
damaged
in
Monday
night's
violence.
Sir
Robert
Mark,
metropolitan
commissioner
of
police,
said
325
policemen
and
131
civilians
were
hurt.
He
said
119
police
and
29
civilians
were-treated
in
hospitals.
Mark
said
50
of
those
arrested
are
black.
A
Scotland
Yard
spokesman
said
they
faced
a
total
of
75
charges,
including
robbery,
possession
of
offensive
weapons,
theft,
threatening
behavior
and
assault
and
obstruction.
He
said
15
are
juveniles.
A
magistrate
sentenced
at
a
cost
of
about
$100,000.
Furby
said
Polaris
Steel
has
a
six-month
map
reserve
on
about
900
acres
bordering
the
Fraser
River,
about
27
miles
north
of
the
city.
The
engineering
studies
will
deal
with
marketing
and
engineering
aspects
of
the
proposed
mill.
Furby
said
no
environmental
studies
will
be
done
by
his
company
because
he
has
been
told
the
mill'
will
not
produce
pollution.
He
said
it
is
believed
the
provincial
government
will
carry
out
any
required
environmental
studies.
Gilly
Holm,
a
21-year-old
white
student
who
allegedly
grabbed
two
bottles
of
sherry
from
smashed
shop
windows,
to
one
month's
imprisonment.
"This
was
looting;
the
courts
must
stamp
out
such
behavior,"
the
magistrate
said.
There
is
no
other
mill
similar
to
the
Polaris
Steel
proposal
operating
in
North
America,
although
others
exist
in
Europe.
Furby
said
money
for
the
engineering
study
has
been
raised
from
about
30
local
shareholders.
He
said
once
the
study
is
done,
it
may
be
possible
to
secure
major
capital
financing.
The
mill,
if
built,
would
produce
steel
products
such
as
grinding
rods,
flat
iron
and
rolled
steel
products.
Furby
said
he
is
"looking
beyond
B.C.
to
market
the
WEST
INDIANS,
POLICE
Police
said
the
violence
broke
out
after
black
youths
tried
to
free
an
arrested
pickpocket
in
a
crowded
street.
"It
was
the
worst
situation
that
I
have
seen
in
terms
cf
violence
in
my
41
years
in
the
brigade,"
said
Derek
Fenton,
Police
use
garbage
can
lid
shields.
The
be
the
additions
at
the
College
of
New
Caledonia,
the
re-decking
of
the
old
Fraser
River
bridge,
the
city's
parking
garage
on
Second
Avenue
and
Brunswick
Street
and
the
Permanent
Tower
at
Victoria'
Street
and
Third
Avenue.
Home
building
will
not
be
affected
since
those
companies
are
not
unionized.
CLRA
president
Chuck
McVeigh
said
in
a
telephone
interview
from
Vancouver
today
that
the
plumbers'
demands
could
not
be
met
without
granting
the
same
items
to
all
other
construction
unions.
The
CLRA
represents
about
850
construction
firms
in
B.C.
The
industry
employs
about
40,000
workers.
McVeigh
said
the
decision
to
lock
out
the
workers
was
regrettable,
but
was
caused
by
the
economic
impact
of
the
plumbers'
strike
which
is
delaying
some
150
projects
in
the
Lower
Mainland.
Union
officials
call
the
CLRA's
lockout
notice
irres
450
hurt
in
London
riot
London
commissioner
of
the
St.
John's
Ambulance
Brigade.
"Almost
all
the
trouble
came
from
young
people
youths
and
girls
between
the
ages
of
14
and
19
and
it
was
quite
definitely
discernible
that
they
were
using
this
occasion
to
rob
other
people
taking
part
in
the
festival,"
Mark
told
a
news
conference,
Mark
denied
allegations
by
carnival
organizers
that
the
trouble
was
sparked
by
a
police
show
of
force
on
a
festive
occasion.
He
estimated
there
were
1,600
police
to
some
150,000
revellers
and
said
the
ratio
is
not
unusual
for
crowd
control.
"There
is
no
question
of
the
police
being
in
any
way
hostile
to
the
festival,"
he
said.
"Nobody
benefits
from
incidents
like
these,
They
only
serve
to
aggravate
feelings
and
inflame
passions.
If
I
have
a
message
to
everyone
involved,
it
is:
Cool
it."
DAMAGE
AT
CITY
PARK
Service
work
pays
for
'mischief
'
by
JOHN
POPE
Hoey
later
reported
the
car
had
been
Hoey
had
been
drinking
when
the
incident
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
stolen,
but
changed
his
story
at
the
occurred.
An
18-year-old
Prince
George
youth
police
station
when
confronted
by
an
Hoey
offered
to
pay
for
all
damages
will
do
60
hours
of
community
work
to
officer
who
had
talked
with
him
in
the
Incurred
and
do
work
servicejn
the
community.
partly
make
up
for
damage
he
did
to
area.
the
lawn
at
Fort
George
Park.
A
police
dog
team
later
traced
Hoey
Y
Bradley
D.
Hoey
was
also
ordered
to
movements
from
the
area
where
he
was
A
spokesman
for
the
probation
branch
pay
$140
in
damages
to
repair
the
lawn
found
back
to
the
abandoned
car.
said
today
he
did
now
know
exactly
what
at
Fort
George
Park
after
pleading
But
a
charge
of
public
mischief
for
community
work
Hoey
would
do,
but
It
guilty
to
a
charge
of
mischief.
He
misleading
the
officer
was
withdrawn
would
likely
involve
working
for
any
received
a
conditional
discharge
from
after
the
youth
pleaded
guilty
to
mischief.
help.
social
service
agencies
that
requested
Judge
J.
II.
Kenney
in
provincial
court
Monday.
Jim
Cleff,
defence
counsel
for
Hoey,
Two
other
youths
are
also
charged
The
youth
admitted
driving
his
car
said
the
incident
was
the
resultof
"being
with
mischief
and
will
be
tried
at
a
later
over
the
park
lawn
about
12:30
a.m.
on
stupid
more
than
anything
else;"
date.
May
4
and
then
abandoning
it
when
the
"It
was
just
youthful
shortsightedness,"
Another
car
was
believed
to
have
been
police
arrived.
said
Cleff,
who
added
that
used
in
the
incident.
15
Copy
Citizen
Tuesday,
August
31,
1976
Vol.
20;
No;
16,9
GOVT
SEEKS
TALKS
and
Yukon
Building
Trades
Council,
said
he
did
not
believe
the
CLRA
really
wants
to
lockout
the
employees
and
he
doubts
it
is
capable
of
putting
it
into
effect.
But
McVeigh
is
certain
the
lockout
will
take
place
"unless
there
is
a
drastic
change
of
position
by
the
unions".
The
construction
industry
was
closed
down
for
37
days
in
June
and
July
when
carpenters
went
on
strike
and
the
CLRA
locked
out
the
res
t
of
the
workers.
Now
it's
10-cent
postage
Canadians
will
pay
more
to
send
letters
across
the
country
or
across
town
starting
Wednesday.
First
class
letters
will
require
10
cents
postage,
up
from
eight
cents
which
has
been
the
rate
for
the
past
four
years.
Other
increases
for
postal
services
include
higher
prices
for
registered
mail;
CODs;
money
orders;
insurance
and
lock
box
service
;
special
delivery
and
parcel
post.
Anyone
who
wants
his
mail
held
at
the
post
office
during
absences
such
as
holidays,
will
be
charged
$1
per
month
for
the
service.
Third
class
mail
will
cost
more
to
send
per
pound
for
both
addressed
and
non-addressed
or
householder
mail.
Postal
rates
for
U.S.
and
overseas
mail
were
increased
earlier
this
year.
Scientists
fear
'binary
weapon'
SAN
FRANCISCO
(AP)
Scientists
say
the
United
States
defence
department
is
seeking
funds
to
develop
a
new
nervegas
weapon
that
they
fear,
might
usher
in
an
era
of
"dazzling,
unbelievable"
chemical
weaponry.
The
device,
known
as
a
"binary
weapon,"
would
contain
relatively
harmless
chemicals
which
form
a
highly
toxic
nerve
gas
when
the
weapon
is
fired,
said
Dr,
R.
J,
Rutman,
a
University
of
Pennsylvania
biochemist.
Prince
George,
British
Columbia
'Oh
dear
Now
they'll
start
breeding!'
Construction
firms
set
Friday
lockout
by
JAN-UDO
WENZEL
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
Only
planned
talks
with
Labor
Minister
Allan
Williams
can
avert
a
province-wide
lockout
of
construction
workers
scheduled
for
Friday
at
4
p.m.
,
Williams
said
today
he
plans
talks
with
both
sides
to
avert
the
lockout
prompted
by
a
strike
of
plumbers
in
the
Lower
Mainland.
The
plumbers,
members
of
Local
170,
Plumbers,
Pipefitters
and
Steamfitters
Union,'
walked
off
their
jobs
12
days
ago
to
back
up
demands
for
free
parking
space
in
downtown
Vancouver
as
well
as
for
travel
time
and
hot
lunches
for
out
of
town
workers.
The
Construction
Labor
Relations
Association
(CLRA)
has
turned
down
the
demands
and
decided
to
close
down
the
industry
for
a
second
time
this
year.
About
3,000
workers
will
be
affected
by
the
lockout
in
the
Prince
George
area
and
millions
of
dollars
worth
of
construction
projects
will
be
halted.
Worst
hit
will
be
school
construction
in
School
District
57
(Prince
George).
Already
about
1,000
Kelly
Road
Secondary
School
students
will
get
an
extra
10
days
of
vacation
because
their
school
is
still
under
construction.
But
school
district
secretary-treasurer
Mac
Carpenter
said
today
that
construction
may
have
progressed
fare
enough
by,
the
time
the
lockout
starts
to
avoid
any
additional
delay
in
opening
the
school.
Homes
not
affected
Other
projects
affected
will
Cy
Stairs,
head
of
the
B.C.
TODAY
FEATURED
INSIDE
B.Ci
union
officials
say
the
province's
labor
force
will
give
heavy
support
to
the
Oct.
14
protest
against
federal
wage
and
price
controls.
Page
3.
Privy
Council
President
Mitchell
Sharp
has
promised
a
"freedom
of
information
law"
for
Canadians.
Page
2.
9
Beware
the
blob,
say
critics
of
the
scientists
who
created
an
artificial
gene.
But
the
U.S.
biologists
responsible
for
the
experiment
deny
their
work
might
lead
to
some
sort
of
alarming,
movie-style
monster.
Page
5.
The
B.C.
Railway
has
launched
an
anti-alcoholism
program
at
its
Prince
George
operation.
Page
7.
Team
Canada
showed
explosive
scoring
power
Monday,
as
they
downed
an
impressive
Czechoslovakian
national
team
in
a
hockey
exhibition.
Page
15.
Business,
8;
Classified,
16-24;
Comics,
9;
Editorial,
4;
Home
and
Family,
10-11;
Horoscopes,
28;
International,
5;
Local
and
Provincial,
3,
6,
7;
National,
2;
Sports,
15-17;
Television,
27.
c
THE
WEATHER
Mainly
sunny
skies
with
morning
fog
patches
and
warmer
temperatures
are
predicted
for
today
and
Wednesday.
A
trace
of
rainfall
was
recorded
for
Tuesday.
Tuesday's
high
was
20
with
an
overnight
low
of
9.
Low
today,
8
with
a
high
of
23
predicted.
On
Aug.
31,
1975,
the
high
was
17;
the
low,
8.
A
slight
drying
trend
is
forecast
for
the
next
few
days
with
a
high
pf
25
predicted
for
J
NOW
HEAR
THIS)
The
days
of
25-cent
buying
power
have
returned.
A
local
restaurant
which
believes
customers
should
be
able
to
afford
and
enjoy
a
good
cup
of
coffee
has
reduced
the
price
from
30
cents
to
25
cents
a
cup.
Now
that's
inflation
fighting.
People
who
are
not
on
the
city
voters'
list
should
register
today
at
city
hall
or
they
could
miss
their
right
to-vote
in
this
fall's
municipal
elections.
Today
at
5
p.m.
is
the
deadline
for
voter
registration,
city
clerk
Pf
ter
Pattullo
says.
Civic
elections
are
Nov.
20.
The
Provincial
Emergency
Program's
basic
rescue-survival
course,
ideal
for
hunters
planning
to
venture
into
the
outback
this
fall,
begins
Thursday
at
7
p.m.,
in
Suite
302,
1575
Fifth
Avenue.
The
course
takes
about
six
weeks
of
evenings
and
includes
compass
use,
map-reading,
search
techniques,
and
survival
practice,
It's
free
and
although
aimed
at
prospective
search
personnel
is
extremely
valu-'
able
for
any
outdoors
people.
The
man
who
spent
his
summer
finding
jobs
for
Prince
George's
young
people
has
to
start
looking
for
one
for
himself.
The
Student
Manpower
office
closes
today
and
officer-in-charge,
Duncan
McRae,
will
begin
a
personal
job
search
this
week.