The
Citizen
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Copy
Friday,
November
12,
1976
Prince
British
Columbia
Vol.
20
No.
219
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TAKEN
SERIOUSLY
Separatists'
chances
increasing
in
Quebec
by
JAMES
FERRABEE
Southam
News
Services
MONTREAL
The
probability
of
a
Rene
Levesque-led
Parti
Quebecois
government
being
formed
in
Quebec
after
next
Monday's
vote
is
now
being
taken
very
seriously
here.
After
the
latest
of
a
series
of
stunning
polls
was
published
Wednesday
showing
the
PQ
nearly
double
the
ruling
Liberal
Party's
strength
among
commited
voters,
editorial
writers
are
grappling
with
the
implications
of
the
separatist
party
taking
power.
And
a
number
of
firm
conclusions
have
emerged
from
the
contemplations:
First,
while
the
PQ
might
UNDERNEATH
ELEVATOR
Boy
takes
death
ride
ESQUIMALT,
B.C.
(CP)
-Lome
Smith,
11,
of
this
Victoria-area
municipality
was
crushed
in
an
apartment
building
elevator
shaft
Wednesday
night
during
a
game
that
police
said
is
becoming
widespread.
Police
said
the
game
involves
youngsters
hanging
from
the
bottom
of
the
elevator
while
another
works
the
controls
and
moves
it
up
and
down
the
shaft.
It
usually
happens
in
apartment
buildings
other
than
where
the
youngsters
live.
They
enter
by
following
resi
TODAY
CARnage
in
the
Prince
George
ureu
take
over
the
levers
of
power,
they
will
have
no
mandate
to
pull
the
province
out
of
Confederation.
The
reason
is
that
the
same
poll
which
gave
the
PQ
party
a
commanding
lead
in
the
commited
vote
this
week,
also
showed
that
58
per
cent
of
Quebecers
reject
the
idea
of
separation,
while
only
18
per
cent
support
it.
In
a
word,
Quebecers
fancy
the
PQ,
but
not
independence.
As
Claude
Ryan,
publisher
of
Le
Devoir,
said
in
an
editorial
on
the
seeming
contradiction
Thursday,
the
PQ
have
deliberately
played
down
their
commitment
to
independence.
The
Parti
Quebecois,
in
their
campaign,
have
"
...
given
to
dents
through
controlled-entrance
doors.
"It
is
goingon
all
over,"
said
Constable
John
McDonald
of
Esquimau
police.
"Every
area
where
there
are
lots
of
kids
and
apartments.
"They
take
an
elevator
down
to
the
basement
then
they
start
it
back
up
for
a
few
feet
and
turn
the
power
off.
Then
they
can
pull
the
doors
open
and
a
couple
of
them
jump
down
and
get
underneath.
"They
hang
on
while
the
other
one
rides
them
up
and
down;
they
take
turns
riding
and
controlling."
On
Wednesday
night
the
This
week:
Killed:
0
Injured:
20
Arrested
as
impaired:
42
This
veur:
Killed:
18
Injured:
41,'t
To
same
date,
1975
Killed:
30
Injured:
473
Remembrance
Day
ceremony
attracted
crowd
to
cenotaph
at
understand
that
what
they
were
seeking
first
was
a
mandate
to
govern
Quebec
within
the
present
constitutional
framwork,
not
a
mandate
to
take
Quebec
out
of
Confederation."
Ever
since
the
party
was
formed
in
1968,
internal
debates
have
focussed
on
the
issue
of
independence
and
how
the
PQ
should
present
the
option
to
Quebecers.
No
doubt,
if
they
attain
power,
the
same
debate
will
boil
up
again
between
those
who
see
separation
as
secondary
consideration
after
governing,
and
those
who
feel
the
reason
for
governing
is
separation.
See
also
page
2
elevator
came
down
with
Lome
and
a
friend
hanging
on,
but
it
stopped
in
a
position
where
they
couldn't
reachover
to
open
the
door.
Their
partner
left
the
elevator
for
a
minute
and
they
thought
he
had
abandoned
them.
Lome
tried
to
squeeze
from
below
by
way
of
a
14-inch
gap
between
the
elevator
and
the
wall.
As
he
did
so,
someone
on
a
higher
floor
pressed
the
button
to
call
the
alevator.
The
youngster
was
crushed
to
death.
His
12-year-old
friend
was
unhurt,
though
he
had
to
wait
about
30
minutes
for
rescue.
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Editorial
4
Fallen
comrades
saluted
About
1,000
people
attended
Remembrance
Day
ceremonies
at
the
Civic
Centre
and
the
cenotaph
in
Prince
George
Thursday.
A
memorial
service
at
the
Civic
Centre
was
attended
by
about
1,000
people,
and
about
300
of
these
went
on
to
the
wreath-lying
at
the
cenotaph
which
followed
the
memorial
service.
Members
of
the
Royal
Canadian
Legion,
the
armed
forces,
cadets
and
RCMP
paraded
from
the
Civic
Centre
to
the
cenotaph.
Legion
officials
said
participation
in
the
march
was
greater
than
in
recent
years.
"We
had
veterans
of
both
world
wars
as
well
as
of
the
Korean
conflict
in
the
parade,"
an
official
said.
However,
most
of
those
who
took
part
in
the
First
World
War
were
driven
to
the
cenotaph,
a
concession
to
age.
Aid.
Lome
McCuish
represented
the
city,
while
Supt.
Gordon
Greig
led
the
RCMP
and
Lt.
Col.
D.F.
Mcintosh
led
the
contingent
from
Baldy
Hughes
Armed
Forces
Station.
Silver
Cross
mother
Fanny
Kinney
laid
a
wreath
on
behalt
of
mothers
who
lost
their
sons
in
war.
The
Prince
George
ceremony
was
one
of
many
of
similar
observances
in
Canada.
In
Ottawa,
a
wreath
was
laid
at
the
National
War
Memorial
in
the
presence
of
Gov.
-Gen.
Jules
Leger
and
Prime
Minister
Pierre
Elliot
Trudeau.
Diplomats,
members
of
Parliament
and
hundreds
of
vete
rans
attended
the
ceremony,
while
the
crowd
was
smaller
than
in
recent
years.
Only
5,000
people
watched.
(featured
inside)
0
A
$250
fine
levelled
against
the
superintendent
of
child
weltare
in
B.C.
has
been
quashed
in
appeal
court.
Page
7.
Convicted
killer
Gary
Mark
Gilmore
may
force
the
state
to
execute
him,
says
a
spokesman
for
the
Utah
Board
of
Pardons.
Page
5.
A
look
at
life
at
the
Prince
George
Regional
Correctional
Centre.
Page
6.
Is
there
a
more
lonely
man
in
the
world
than
B.C.
Lions
coach
Cal
Murphy'.'
Page
17.
Family
50,
61
Horoscopes
26
Local,
B.C
3,
6,
7,
33,
53
National
2
Sports
17-19
Television
23,
24
Wenzel
Column
33
city
hall.
ELECTION
HOPEFULS
Forum
Sunday
Candidates
for
the
school
board,
regional
district
and
city
council
will
face
public
scrutiny
Sunday
at
an
all-candidates
forum
in
the
Duchess
Park
field
house.
The
17
school
board
and
regional
district
candidates
will
participate
in
the
forum
from
4-5:
30
p.
m.
,
followed
by
the
aldermanic
candidates
from
8-10
p.m.
The
format
calls
for
a
two-minute
speech
from
each
candidate
then
two
30-minute
question
and
answer
sessions
with
a
media
panel
and
written
questions
from
the
audience.
The
forum
sponsored
by
the
Jaycees
was
originally
scheduled
to
be
held
in
Pine
Centre.
Sinking
survivors
cling
to
log
cargo
SAN
FRANCISCO
(AP)
-Tossed
about
in
the
Pacific's
"worst
weather
of
the
year,"
some
crew
members
from
the
sunken
lumber
ship
Carnelian-1
awaited
rescue
today
as
the
clung
to
floating
logs
from
their
vessel's
scattered
cargo.
The
United
States
Coast
Guard
said
that
by
morning
nine
of
the
33
crew
members
had
been
rescued
since
the
Japan-bound
ship
went
under
Thursday
in
stormy
seas
1,400
miles
northwest
of
Honolulu,
Voters
close
Ohio
COLUMBUS,
Ohio
(AP)
-Schools
have
been
closed
to
nearly
10,000
Ohio
children
because
three
school
districts
have
run
out
of
money.
And
three
other
districts,
including
Toledo,
are
slated
to
close
by
the
end
of
next
month,
which
would
bring
the
number
of
children
affected
to
70,000.
The
unscheduled
vacations
THE
WEATHER
Low
cloud
with
the
chance
of
a
few
sunny
periods
is
forecast
for
today
and
Saturday.
A
trace
of
rainfall
was
recorded
Thursday.
Thursday's
high
was
0
with
an
overnight
low
of
-1.
Low
today,
-2
with
a
high
of
2
predicted.
On
Nov.
12,
1975
the
high
was
7;
the
low,
3.
Cloudy,
unsettled
weather
is
forecast
for
the
next
few
days.
Citizen
photo
by
lcn
Teniscl
and
at
least
one
body
had
been
spotted.
"The
survivors
are
in
pretty
good
shape;
some
of
the
crew
were
wearing
survival
exposure
suits,"
said
coast
cuard
spokesman
Larry
Clark
in
San
Francisco,
where
the
rescue
operation
is
being
coordinated.
He
said
two
sailors
were
rescued
by
the
Panamanian-registered
ship
Hunter,
itself
in
trouble
with
cargo
shifting
in
its
hold
in
the
rough
seas.
were
made
necessary
when
voters
in
the
six
districts
last
week
rejected
higher
property
tax
levies
necessary
to
keep
the
schools
open.
Unless
an
emergency
plan
is
worked
out,
officials
said
the
schools
will
remain
closed
until
the
new
year,
when
fresh
state
aid
funds
become
available.
The
Ohio
situation
is
similar
3
Civic
candidate
sees
'squeeze'
by
TOM
NIXON
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
Multi-national
companies
are
gaining
control
of
land
development
in
Prince
George
and
will
boost
house
prices
from
$40,000
to
the
$60,000
levels
of
Calgary
and
Vancouver,
says
aldermanic
candidate
Gordon
Jagar.
Jagar,
owner
of
a
small
contracting
business,
says
he
can
see
his
livelihood
disappearing
as
large
land
development
companies
gain
more
and
more
control
of
land
in
the
city.
"They've
got
to
be
fought
and
controlled,"
he
said.
"Or
we'll
end
up
with
a
monopolistic
thing
like
Calgary."
He
says
this
is
the
reason
he's
running
for
council.
According
to
the
1973
Genstar
Report
commissioned
by
Calgary
city
council,
Calgary's
housing
industry
is
controlled
by
two
companies:
Carma
Developments
Ltd.
and
Genstar
Ltd.
through
a
subsidiary,
British
American
Construction
and
Materials
Ltd.
Carma
Developments
controls
600
acres
of
land
in
Blackburn
and
160
acres
on
Cranbrook
Hill
which
it
owns
outright
or
has
under
option.
A
search
of
land
titles
by
The
Citizen
shows
no
indication
that
BACM
Ltd.
owns
land
in
Prince
George.
But
Ocean
Cement,
another
Genstar
company,
owns
170
acres
of
prime
land
on
the
north
side
of
the
Nechako
River,
and
mines
it
for
gravel.
Carma
Developments
began
buying
land
and
options
in
the
Blackburn
area
as
early
as
1973,
using
a
few
local
real
estate
men
and
small
developers
to
do
the
purchasing.
One
buyer
who
claims
involvement,
says
he
made
"a
couple
of
thousand"
a
month
working
for
the
Calgary-based
company.
By
1975
a
number
of
Carma
building
companies
also
were
doing
business
in
the
city,
buying
city
lots
for
houses
and
also
buying
small
acreages
of
land
which
were
later
sold
to
Carma.
'Builder-shareholders'
Springer
Construction
Ltd.,
Engineered
Homes
Ltd.,
Nu-West
Development
Corp.
,
Ltd.
,
and
Qualico
Developments
Ltd.,
are
four
companies
listed
in
Carma's
1975
financial
report
as
"builder-
shareholders."
Jagar
says
the
large
companies,
with
vast
amounts
of
money
behind
them,
will
squeeze
small
builders
like
him
out
of
business
along
with
dozens
of
plumbing,
electrical,
framing,
roofing
and
other
sub-trades
contractors
and
many
building
supply
companies
who
now
make
good
livings
here.
"It's
all
a
perfectly
legal
process
and
it's
good
business
for
them,
but
we
can't
let
the
mighty
just
take
over."
Jagar
says
the
city
has
the
power
of
control
and
regulation
to
stop
speculation
and
the
driving
up
of
lot
prices
and
house
values
which
follows
once
large
companies
gain
control.
"I'm
not
suggesting
the
city
has
anything
to
do
with
large
companies
or
that
they've
done
anything
wrong
in
their
policies,"
Jagar
says.
"But
I'm
afraid
it's
too
late.
"They
don't
realize
the
ways
these
outfits
work
nor
the
power
they
have.
I
am
a
house-builder,
I
know
how
it
works
and
I
want
to
get
on
council
so
I
can
fight
it."
Prince
George
has
had
a
strong
administration
and
council
who
have
governed
the
city
very
well,
he
said,
but
with
amalgamation
council
inherited
problems
that
they've
had
little
control
of.
"There
never
has
been
any
schools
to
that
in
Oregon,
where
one
district
with
2,600
pupils
has
been
closed
since
Oct.
15
and
two
others
with
more
than
6,000
students
are
preparing
to
close
because
voters
refused
to
approve
higher
tax
levies.
The
districts
are
forbidden
by
state
law
from
accumulating
a
deficit
by
spending
money
they
do
not
have.
NOW
HEAR
THIS
CKPG
dusted
off
veteran
broadcaster
Jack
Carbutt
to
present
a
special
half-hour
Remembrance
Day
program
on
Thursday
which
Jack
delivered
himself
in
his
own
inimitable
way.
But
that's
not
the
item.
It's
the
way
in
which
the
station's
early
morning
man
put
it
Jack
would
be,
he
said,
between
10:30
and
11
a.m.
"complete
with
two
minutes
silence."
Ah
radio.
.
.
"That's
Prince
George
for
you,"
said
a
local
man
after
he
learned
several
of
his
friends
were
expecting
babies
and
births
seemed
to
be
on
the
increase
at
the
hospital.
"When
it
comes
to
the
United
Way
or
Red
Cross
campaigns
the
people
of
Prince
George
pitch
in.
Now
that
the
population
is
10,000
below
what
the
people
thought
it
was
they're
doing
something
about
it.
input
from
builder
interests
and
I
think
it
would
be
an
asset,
now,"
Jagar
said.
He
says
the
biggest
asset
Prince
George
has
is
its
low-priced
housing
which
will
be
lost
once
the
national
and
multi-national
companies
gain
control.
"Land
movement
in
this
city
is
still
going
on,"
he
says.
"They
don't
care
where
the
development
is
directed
by
council:
they're
in
Blackburn,
Cranbrook
Hill
and
the
North
Nechako."
Jagar
says
no
one
knows
how
much
land
Carma,
Genstar
or
JAGAR
any
other
large
company
has
because
they
can
get
unregistered
options
on
land
in
all
quarters
of
the
city.
They
buy
options
for
large
acreages
through
one
of
their
builder
companies
and
then
if
development
doesn't
go
into
the
particular
area
they
let
the
option
drop,
he
said.
"They'll
pick
up
an
option
for
a
few
years
and
then
sit
on
it
until
it
pays
to
buy
or
else
drop
the
option.
They've
got
large
amounts
of
capital
to
sit
on
land,
to
develop
and
wait,
even
to
build
houses
and
then
hold
them
until
the
prices
are
driven
up."
Jagar
says
these
companies,
once
they
have
enough
land
and
are
established
in
influential
circles,
invite
numbers
of
small
local
builders
to
become
involved,
either
convincing
them
they'll
be
protected
or
by
See
HOUSING,
page
2
1
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