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Wednesday.
December
1.
1976
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itizen
i
Vol.
20;
No.
23?
Prince
George,
British
Columbia
LATEST
GALLUP
POLL
Liberals
gain
ground
Southam
News
Services
OTTAWA
The
popularity
of
the
federal
Liberal
Party
has
rebounded
six
points
from
its
low
point
in
August,
nearly
all
at
the
expense
of
the
Progressive
Conservatives,
according
to
the
latest
Gallup
poll
released
today.
But
the
release
of
the
November
survey,
of
voter
opinion
still
shows
the
Conservatives
1
with
a
seven
point
lead
over
the
Liberals,
and
a
high
35
per
cent
of
the
electorate
undecided.
The
Gallup
Poll,
consisting
of
personal
in-home
interviews
of
1,058
Canadians
18
years
and
over,
conducted
in
the
first
week
of
November,
shows
the
Conservatives
would
COUNSELLING
Program
urged
for
'shoplifters'
by
THEANO
KOMAS
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
1
A
counselling
program
for
;
shoplifters
has
been
proposed
for
Prince
George.
The
program,
under
the
direction
of
the
local
probation
office,,
would
involve
a
short-;
term
counselling
service
for
-
first
offenders
and
a
central
file
of
adult
and
juvenile
shoplifters,
which
would
be
avail-
able
to
merchants
and
justice
.
personnel.
Local
merchants
would
be
'.
required
to
partially
fund
the
program
and
the
Prince
George
Chamber
of
Com-;merce
has
already
unanim-
ously
voted
to
support
it.
A
local-workshop'about
the'
7
will
buy
her
a
fur
coat
for
Christmas.;.!
will
buy
her
a
fur
coat
for
Christmas...
proposed
program
is
planned
for
January.
Dave
Smith,
the
coordinator
of
a
similar
shoplifting
counselling
program
cur-1
rently
operating
in
Burnaby,
will
come
to
Prince
George
to
conduct
the
workshop.
He'll
talk
with
local
merchants,
probation
officers,
police,
justice
personnel
and
concerned
citizens
.about
the
program
and
shoplifting
in
general.-Then
a
decision
will
be
made
whether
to
go
ahead
with
it
in
.Prince
George.
The
way
things
are
now,
first
offenders
here
are
often
charged.
The
proposed
program
however,
recommends
that
no
charges
be
made
against
them:
TODAY
i'
(featured
inside)
6
Financial
analyst
Don
McGillivray
explains
the
impact
of
the
decline
of
the
Canadian
dollar.
Page
4.
Renovations
to
the
B.C.
Legislative
Buildings
are
costing
much
more
than
planned..
Page
7,
There's
a
housing
problem
in
Bear
Lake,
about
50
miles
north
of
Prince
George.
Page
33.
Basketball,
with
the
emphasis
on
fun
rather
than
finesse,
is
big
with
the
little
people
in
Prince
George.
Page
17.
Bridge.
..
..
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Bu8lness..........................8,
9
Classified
20-28
Comics
38
Crossword
........................21
Editorial.
......
4
Entertain
men
t
..........38-42
G
THE
Family.
10-12
Horoscopea..................,....40
Internationa
5
Local,
B.C
3,
7,
33
National
.........
2
Sports
17-18
Television
-...38
J
WEATHER
Cloudy
skies
with
isolated
snow
flurries
overnight
are
forecast
today.
Snowfall
recorded
Tuesday
was
.3
cm.
Tuesday's
high
was
0
with
an
overnight
low
of
-2.
Low
today,
-3
with
a
high
of
1
predicted.
un
Dec.
l,
1975
the
high
was
9;
the
low
-18.
Unsettled,
cloudy
weather
with
the
chance
of
snow
is
forecast
for
the
next
few
days.
NOW
HEAR
THIS
Not
even
the
liquor
stores
are
immune
from
shoplifters;
The
specialty
store
on
10th
Avenue
recently
lost
a
$95
bottle
of
French
cognac,
the
most
expensive
bottle
offered
here,
In
The
Citizen's
shoplifting
story
Tuesday,
Lyall
Thompson,
general
manager
of
the
Pine
Centre,
was
quoted
as
saying
the
store
lost
$450,000
to
shoplifters
'last
year'.
Now
he
says
what
he
meant
to
say
was
the
losses
have
been
suffered
"in
the
past
two
and
one-half
years
since
the
centre
opened.
We'd
go
broke
if
we
suffered
losses
that
high
in
one
year,
but
that's
still
a
tremendous
amount
of
stolen
goods,
even
in
two
or
three
years."
have
42
per
cent
of
the
popular
vote,
the
Liberals
35
per
cent,
NOP
17
per
cent
and
other
parties
six
per
cent
.
This
compares
with
a
poll
in
August
which
showed
the
Conservatives
with
47
per
cent,
the
Liberals
with
29
per
cent,
the
NDP
with
17
per
cent
and
other
parties
with
seven
per
cent.
According
t
the
pollsters,
there
are
wide
regional
differences
in
voter
preferences.
"In
Quebec,
today,
a
slim
majority
of
decided
voters
favor
the
Liberal
Party,
while
in
the
West,
a
solid
majority
would
vote
for
the
Conservatives,"
the
Gallup
Poll
surveyers
said.
A
first
offender
would
be
recorded
on
a
central
filing
system,
listing,
his
name,
address,
age,
number
of
offences
committed,
store
where
he
shoplifted,
value
of
merchandise
and
follow-up,
The
offender
would
then
be
required
to
take
a
short-term
counselling
session,
probably
12
hours
in
length.
In
Burnaby,
the
800
first
offenders
on
file
to
date,
have
taken
the
compulsory
session
and
only
three
have
been
caught
shoplifting
again.
RCMP
Insp.
Dave
Cowley
says
"while
statistics
can
lie,
the
program
is
a
step
forward.
It
could
save
merchants
a
lot
of
money,
take
a
load
off
the
police
force
and
most
important,
help
the
'individual
to
avoid
committing
further
offences."
'
Local
store
detectives
say
highly
qualified
counsellors
will
ha
ve
to
be
hired
if
the
program
is
going
to
work.
"We
get
entire
families
in
here,
coming
back
over
and
over,
to
shoplift
goods,
even
after
they've
been
caught,"
said
one.
"We
could
talk
and
warn
until
we're
blue
in
the
face
and
it
wouldn't
do
any
good.
We've
spent
endless
hours
counselling
young
shoplifters
but
is
it
a
'public'
responsibility
to
guide
these
kids
or
a
parental
duty?"
Some
agree
it's
usually
the.
parent's
fault
when
a
child
shoplifts,
either
because
of
neglect
or
sheer
ignorance.
They
say
a
lot
of
parents
shoplift
themselves
and
the
kids
see
this.
"Many
children
are
even
used
to
get
the
goods
out
of
the
store."
One
detective
said
a
20-'year-old
mother
was
caught
putting
clothes
in
her
four-year-old
daughter's
parka
hood.
When
she
was
arrested,
she'd
already
picked
up
$103
worth
of
merchandise
from,
five
different
stores.
"Then
there's
-the
parents
who
will
actually
defend
and
coddle
their
children
when
they
find
out
we'
ve
caught
the
kids
shoplifting,"
he
says.
"Two
children,
age
13
andl4,
had
pockets'
sewn
inside
their
iean
jackets
to
carry
small
items
out
of
the
store
and
their
parents
didn't
even
know.
"The
mother
denied
that
her
children
would
do
such
a
thing,
yet
the
evidence
was
right
there,"
He
says
"although
I've
had
See
SHOPLIFTING
page
2
Post
office
frustration
OTTAWA
(CP)
-
The
Canadian
Union
of
Postal
Workers
(CUPW)
likely
will
decide
Friday
what
to
do
about
a
breakdown
in
mediation
talks
at
a
time
when
the
post
office
is
entering
its
Christmas
rush,
union
president
Joe
Davidson
said
today.
Mediator
Noel
Hall
of
Vancouver
called
off
talks
Tuesday
after
he
failed
to
resolve
a
bitter,
long-standing
dispute
over
technological
change
in
the
post
office.
Mr.
Davidson
said
he
could
not
indicate
in
advance
what
the
CUPW
executive
will
decide
at
its
meeting
Friday,
but
he
said
frustrations
are
running
high.
The
union,
which
represents
mail
sorters
and
postal
clerks,
staged
a
series
of
rotating
V
'
:-
nil
awpw
WOMAN
PRIEST
ORDAINED
HERE
Anglicans
tear
down
sex
barrier
The
church
is
determined
to
no
longer
allow
sex
to
be
a
barrier
to
priesthood,
the
Anglican
primate
of
Canada
told
worshippers
here
Tuesday
at
the
ordination
of
Pat
Reed,
one
Of
the
first
'six
women
priests
in
the
country.
Archbishop
Edward
Scott
said
"I
would
like,
to"
welcome
women
to
priesthood,
in
spite
of
any
controversy
which
has
surrounded
the
Occurrence
of
'
this
historic
eventi
"It's
the
growing
conviction
of
bishops,
clergy
and
lay
people
tfiat
women
Will
strengthen
and
enrich
priesthood
with
their
parr
ticular
talents
and
gifts,
not
in
the
image
of
the
male
priest,
but
as
individuals
and
as
women,"
he
said.
The
archbishop
delivered
the
sermon
before
Reed
was
ordained.
She
has
been
serving
as
a
deacon
at
St.
John
the
Divine,
in
Quesnel
and
will
continue
to
serve
there.
Other
women
ordained
Tuesday
were
Virginia
Bryant
and
Els'beth
Alley,
in
Vancouver
and
Beverly
Shanley
of
Niagara
diocese,
Mary
Lucas
.
of
St.
Catherines
and
Mary
Laksr
Mills
of
Huron
diocese,
in
St.
Catherines.
Rev.
Reed
was
employed
$33.3
MILLION
Budget
figures
just-
tentative"
by
TOM
NIXON
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
A
$33.3
million
draft
budget
being
discussed
by
council
this
month
is
only
the
first
tentative
version
of
what
will
be
adopted
next
March
as
the
city's
final
1977
budget,
city
treasurer
Chuck
Schattenkirk
said
today.
Council
held
the
first
session
union
'high'
strikes
in
October
to
draw
public
attention
to
its
complaint
that
the
post
office
is
violating
the
contract
by
introducing
technological
changes
without
fully
consulting
the
union
beforehand.
WE'VE
GOT
ONLY
tl
SHorPIMG
DAVS
'TIL
,
CHRISTMAS
Cow
fcltH
llhUilMMll
Rev.
Pat
Reed,
one
of
the
as
a
social
worker
in
Kam-loops
before
entering
the
church
three
years
ago.
"It's
a
very
exciting
time
for
me,
for
the
Anglican
church
and
all
Christian
churches
who
may
follow
this
example
in
the
future,"
she
said
after
tho
ceremony,
which
drew
about
250
people
to
St.
Michael
and
All
Angels
Church.
Rt.
Rev.
John
Snowden,
bishop
of
the
Cairboo
dio-'
Bishop
and
priests
lay
hands
on
new
priest's
head,
of
month-long
preliminary
budget
talks
this
week.
Schattenkirk
said
the
final
expenditure
figure
set
in
March
does
not:
necessarily
have
to
be
anywhere
near
the
first
tentative
figure
used
Monday.
Council
goes
over
the
tentative
budget
detail
by
detail,
page
by
page
for
more
than
50
pages,
reviews
every
expense
and
revenue'
and
pares
the
final
figure
down
to
a
slam
it
thinks
taxpayers
can
bear.
"It's
an
administrative
d.ocument,.
that's
all'
Schattenkirk
said.
"Announcing
figures
now
really
only
confuses
things."
A
provisional
budget
usually
reported
in
detail
must
be
adopted
by
Jan.
17
and
copies
sent
to
the
municipal
affairs
department
for
its
study.
The
final
budget
is
a
modified
and
adjusted
version
of
the
provisional
budget
and
must
be
adopted
before
May
15.
The
1976
final
budget
was
set
at
$29.5
million,
about
$1
million
less
than
the
actual
amount
which
has
been
estimated
the
city
will
go
through
by
the,
end
of
this
month,
The
1976
provisional
budget
was
$27.3
million.
Budget
for
1975
was
$25.8
million.
The
1976
budget
came
under
pressure
from
unexpected
increases
in
expenses.
One
disastrous
additional
load
was
a
1145,000
increase
in
welfare
payments.
first
six
woriien
priests
in
Canadawith
Dishop
Snowden.
cese,
performed
the
ordination.
The
ceremony
here
occurred
without
incident
but,
in
New
Westminster,-the
service
was
interrupted
when
the
Archbishop
Davidi,
Somerville,
reading
,
from
the
service
in
the
Anglican
Book
of
Common
PrayerJ
asked
"if
there
be
any
of
you
who
knoweth
any
'impediment
or
notable
crime
in
any
of
them,
the
Cargo
ship's
crew
rescued
NEW
ORLEANS
(AP)
-Fifteen
crew
members
were
rescued
from,
a
Liberian
cargo
ship
that
sank
today
off
the
coast
of
Tampico,
Mexico,
the
U.S.
Coast
Guard
said.
Another
10
crew
members
were
reported
safe
in
a
lifeboat
and
awaiting
rescue.
The
311-foot
Melias,
bound
from
Guyana
to
Tampico,
sank
about
4
a.m.
about
300
miles
off
the
Mexican
coast
and
about
600
miles
southwest
of
New
Orleans,
The
first
ship
to
arrive
at
the
scene
about
three
hours
later
was
the
Greek
vessel
Ageis
Sonic.
'
DEPRESSED
MARKETS'
4,000
loggers
laid
off
VANCOUVER
(CP)
-
MacMillan
BloedeL
Ltd.,
British
Columbia's
largest
forest
industry
employer,
announced
Tuesday
that
it
will
lay
off
4,000
logging
employees
Friday
because
of
depressed
market
conditions.
The
company
said
the
logging
shutdown
will
be
followed
by
a
year-end
closure
of
some
of
its
mills
which
have
been
affected
by
poor
markets.
The
woods
shutdown
is
one
of
the
earliest
on
record
for
the
giant
forest
company,
which
has
operations
concentrated
mainly
on
the
B.C.
coast.
Normally
pur
woods
operations
are
shut
down
by
weather
in
late
December,
but
this
is
much
earlier
than
usual
and
is
caused
solely
by
poor
markets,"
a
company
spokesman
said.
One
of
the
hardest
hit
will
be
the
company's
Port
Alberni
district
where
1,473
employees
will
be
laid
off,
'
T
candidates,"
to
come
forward.
'
A
Vancouver
Anglican
priest
James
Penrice,
read
a
petition
objecting
to
the
ordination
of
the
women,
who,
he
said,
"by
nature
and
by
biology",
don't
qualify
for
ordination..
He
said
the
ordination
threatens
"the.
unity
of
the
church,"
especially
reunification
moves
with
orthodox,
Roman
Catholic,
Old
Catholic
and
various
Pentecostal
denominations.
He
also
said
the
decision
to
ordain
women
"must
be
decided
by
the
whole
church.",
The
archbishop
replied
to
the
petition,,
noting
that
"due
process
had
been
observed
and
both
the
General
Synod
and
the
House
of
Bishops
have
set
their
approval
on
this
action."
Ordination
of
women
was
passed
in
principle
las
June
by
the
church's
general
assembly
but
gave
bishops
the
right
to
refuse
to
ordain
women
into
their
dioceses.
Some
of
the
women
ordained
had
waited
25-50
years
to
be
'
accepted
as
priests.
.
Until
now,
women
could
Korean
diplomat
guarded
in
U.S.
WASHINGTON
(AP)
FBI
agents
are
reported
to
be
guarding
a
South
Korean
diplomat
who
has
defied
orders
to
return
home
and
is
cooperating
with
the
U.S.
justice
department
investigation
of
alleged
South
Korean
influence-buying
among
U.S.
congressmen.
Sources
identified
him
Tuesday
as
Kim
Sang
Keun,
officially
listed
as
a
counsellor
at
the
South
Korean
Embassy
but
who
is
reported
to
be
the
senior
Korean
Central
Intelligence
Cttiten
photoi
by
Len
Teniae!
serve
only
as
deacons
in
the
Anglican
church,
They
shared
the
duties
of
the
priest
but
couldn't
perform
holy
communion
during
service
or
the
prayer
of
pardon
during
confession.
Ordination
has
granted
them
equal
duties
to
men.
"Women
can
achieve
things
men
can't,"
Archbishop
Scott
told
the
service
here.
He.
said
an
Anglican
woman
was
sent
to
a
town
where
malep'riests
hadpre-:
viously
failed
to
last
for
more
than
a
year.
The
woman,
however,
is
sti!J.
working
in
the
community
after
25
years.
Archbishop
Scott
said
"to
ordain
someone
means
we
recognize
an
individual's
gifts,
ability
and
commitment
to
carry
out
the
special
ministries
for
the
church:
"A
priest
has
special
functions
and
responsibilities,
not
in
the
sense
of
being
more
important
than
others,
but
to
work
with
people
and
try
to
meet
their
needs,
in
the
name
of
the
church.
"In
myopinion,
the
services
a
woman
can
offer
and
the
gifts
of
women.
are
'
as
widely
varied
and
important
as
the
gifts
of
any
man."
Agency
(KCIA)
officer
here.'
FBI
agents
are
reported
to
be
guarding
Kim,
his
.wife
and
family
at
an
undisclosed
location
near
here.
Kim,
43,
who
was
named
in
recent
news
reports
about
the
Korean
influence-purchasing
investigation
as
a
KCIA
officer,
is
reported
to
fear
the
Seoul
government
would
make
him
a
scapegoat
in
the
U.S'.
investigation
of
its
lobbying
activities.
The
company
spokesman
said
the
woods
closure
will
last
until
early
January,
Tie
same
depressed
market
conditions
responsible
for
the
woods
closure
will
force
MacMillan
Bloedel
to
close
its'
pulp
and
paper-mills
and
panel
board
mills
between
Christ
mas
and
New
Year's,
the
spokesman
SaidJ
"We
haven't
decided
yet
whether
or
not
the
sawmills
will
be
shut
down
as
well,1'
he
said..
Commenting
on
the
layoffs,
Jack
Munro,
western
regional
vice-presidentof
the
Interna-,
tional
Woodworkers
of
America,
said
the
forest
companies
aren't
managing
their
operations
effectively
and
don't
care
about
their
workers.
He,
said
the
companies
complain
about
a
lack
of
productivity
among
IWA
members
but
if
the
workers
had
doubled
their
output,
the
layoffs
would
probably
have
come
two
months
ago.