If.-'
..-
Thursday,
December
2,'
1976
Vol.
20;
No.
233
ELMER
MacKAY
TODAY.
'Heads
we
up
the
price
of
oil
immediately,
tails
we
wait
until
after
lunch.'
The
MP
would
quit
over
Stats
Ca
n
OTTAWA
(CP)
-
Conservative
MP
Elmer
MacKay
told
a
stormy
Commons
committee
today
he
will
resign
his
seat
if
there
is
no
discrepancy
between
information
the
government
has
made
public
on
improper
sale
of
Statistics
:
Canada
data
and
secret
letters
exchanged
between
senior
public
servants.
"I
think
there
are
significant
variances
(between
the
publicly
released
material
and
the
letters),'
Mr.
MacKay
told
reporters
later.
His
bid
to
have
the
letters,
written
in
1974,
made
public
was
rebuffed
by
Trade
Minister
Jean
Chretien,
who
said
that
by
tradition
he
could
not
release,
exchanges
between
public
servants.
An
offer
to
resign
is
the
most
serious
step
an'
MP
can
take:
If
an
MP
who
makes
such
a
proposal
Is
proven
wrong,
by
tradition
he
cannot
back
off.
Conservative
MPs
have
been
pressing
the
government
recently
for
details
on
an
affair
begun
in
1972
when
some
Statistics
Canada
employees
took
publicly-available
information
and
sold
it
under
a
firm
called
Allan
Jeffrey
Associates.
The
Conservatives
want
to
know
if
Sylvia
Ostry,
who
in
1974
was
head
of
the
agency,
knew
about
the
dealings
of
the
employees.
The
economic
affairs
com-'
BILINGUAL
FEUD
'SOS
was
jammed1
MONTREAL
(CP)
English-speaking
airline
pilots
have
been
jamming
radio
transmissions
from
their
French-speaking
counterparts
as
part
of
the
dispute
over
bilin-gualism
in
air
traffic
control,
the
secretary
of
the
Association
des
Gens
de
l'Air
du
Quebec
said
Wednesday.
In
a
speech
to
a
businessmen'3
club,
Pierre
Beaudry
cited
the
example
of
a
small
private
aircraft
lost
on
a
flight
between
Quebec
City
and
Drummondville
last
October.
The
aircraft's
pilot
made
a
distress
call
in
French
to
Montreal's
Dorval
Airport,
but
Mr.
Beaudry
said
the
call
was
"blocked"
by
English-speaking
pilots
of
CP
Air
and
Air
Canada
who
at
the
time
were
on
the
ground
at
Dorval.
"We
have
made
a
complaint
to
the
Canadian
transport
commission
about
this."
He
said
the
incident
was
one
of
many
examples
of
the
relations
between
English-and
French-speaking
workers
in
the
province's
airports.
Roger
Burgess-Webb,
a
spokesman
for
the
Canadian
Air
Line
Pilots
Association'(CALPA)
in
Toronto,
said
Wednesday
he
found
the
report
hard
to
believe.
Second
company
quits
pipeline
consortium
VANCOUVER
(CP)
-Trans
Mountain
Pipeline
Ltd.
Wednesday
became
the
second
company'to
withdraw
from
a
consortium
proposing
a
Kitimat,
B.C.-Edmonton
oil
pipeline,
said
consortium
head
Earl
Joudrie.,
Mr.iJoudrie
said
in
a
telephone
interview
from
Toronto
that
the
withdrawals
will
not
affect
the
pipeline
propoasl.
It
means
the
eight
remaining
companies
will
have
to
put
up
a
greater
share
of
the
money..
Reasons
for
the
withdrawal
were
not
immediately
known.
Ken
Hall,
president
of
Vancouver-based
Trans
Moun-'
tain,
could
not
be
reached
for
comment
after
the
consortium's
Toronto
meeting.
He
said
on
.Tuesday
that
his
company
would
withdraw
if
certain
changes
in
the
prop-'
osal
were
not
made
and
questioned
whether
the
proposal
"was
"in
the
best
Interests
of
British
Columbia
or
Canada."
Husky
Oil,
of
the
United
States
pulled
out
of
the
project
on
Monday
saying
it
supported
the
project
but
had
prior
commitments'
on
capital.
Mr.
Joudrie
said
the
consortium
still
plans
to
go
ahead
with
a
formal
application
to
the
National
Energy
Board
one
week.
The
application
will
propose
a
$494
million,
760-mlle
pipeline,
a
supertanker
terminal
at
the
north
coast
community
of
Kitimat
and
a
three-million
barrel
storage
area.
rriittee
meeting
was
punctuated
by
angry
exchanges
between
Conservative
and
Liberal
MPs
and
at
one
point
was
briefly
disrupted
by
an
outsider
who
said
criminal
charges
should
be
laid..
The
outsider
was
Arnold
Guetta,
who
described
himself
as
a
consulting
mathematician.
Mr.
MacKay
said
Mr.
Chretien
should
reconsider
a
decision
not
to
make
public
a
letter
between
Edgar
Gallant,
in
1974
chairman
of
the
National
Capital
Commission,
and
Gordon
Robertson,
then
clerk
of
the
privy
council,
and
a
second
letter
between
Mr.
Robertson
and
Mrs.
Ostry.
.
"I
attach
so
much
importance
to
these
letters
...
that
if
they
do
not
illustrate
a
variance
between
the
documents
the
government'
has
tabled
in
the
House,
I
will
put
my
seat
on
the
line,"
Mr.
MacKay
said.
Mr.
Chretien
replied
that
he
was
"terribly
sorry"
he
could
not
release
the
letters
but
that
a
tradition
of
confidentiality
had
to
be
maintained.
He
suggested
if
Mr.
MacKay
would
state
what
the
discrepancy
is,
it
might
be
cleared
up-
Mr.
MacKay
said
later
that
he
was
sure
the
secret
letters
differed
from
information
made
public
by
the
government
but
would
not
confirm
if
he
had
copies
because
he
said
it
might
reveal
his
sources.
"I
got
the
information
from
a
very
reliable
source,"
he
said.
Mr.
Chretien
said
Mr.
MacKay
was
engaging
in
mud-slinging
and
he
was
satisfied
Mr.
Gallant,
Mr.
Robertson
and
Mrs.
Ostry
had
done
"an
excellent
job"
in
dealing
with
;
the
Jeffrey
case.
Hugh
Poulin,
parliamentary
secretary
to
Mr.
Chretien,
said
Mr.
MacKay
was
trying
to
blacken
the
reputation
of
Statistics
Canada.
Mr.
MacKay
should
make
a
specific
accusation
or
with-;
draw
his
innuendoes;
he.
said.
20
SHOPPING
DAV1
'Til
CHRISTMAS
Citizen
s
i
(featured
inside)
The
American
Civil
Liberties
Union
hasn't
given
up
on
Gary
Gilmore.
It
hopes
to
block
his
scheduled
execution
Monday,
Page
5.
James
Richardson,
former
Liberal
cabinet
minister,
is
in
trouble
with
French-speaking
reporters
in
Quebec.
They
discovered
he
is
preaching
national
unity
but
can't
speak
French.
Page
2.
The
Vancouver
Canucks
lost
again
Wednesday
and
didn't
take
long
to
make
some
changes.
John
Gould
was
sent
to
Atlanta
in
a
two-for-one
trade.
Page
17,
.Bridge
24
Family
38-40
Business
8-10
Horoscopes......
..36
Classified
......20-29
International...........
S
Comics
30
Local,
B.C
3,
7,
33
Crossword.
.....
22
National
.2
Editorial...
4
Sports
....17-19
Entertainment
30-32
Television
31
Social
Credit
looks
like
NDP
on
farmland
policy
by
NICHOLAS
HILLS
the
town
of
Chilliwack
to
remove
close
of
Chilliwack
to
remove
this
large
wealth
and
constant
Immigration
from
Land
Commission
had
virtually
been
Mayor
William
Simpson:
"Let's
separate."
Southam
News
Services
to
1,800
acres
from
the
province's
agricultural
chunk
of
land
from
the
agricultural
preserve
other
parts
of
the
country.
fired
by
the
new
government,
suggesting
l
VANCOUVER
This
was
the
crucial
land
preserve
in
order
to
precipitate
in
order
to
expand
its
commercial
The
decision
of
the
Social
Credit
that
a
new
kind
of
environmental
Then,
he
adds:
"But
we
won't
do
that.
3''
test
on
this
particularly
vital
issue.
development
of
this
rapidly-expanding
and
housing
area.
cabinet,
which
has
the
last
word
in
this
policy
was
in
the
wind.
And
I
won't
quit
either,
I'm
going
to
Was
the
Social
Credit
government
dormitory
area
in
the
Fraser,
The
government
was
asked
to
remove
regard,
was
to
give
Chilliwack
just
16
But
as
in
other
areas
of
this
kind,
public
fight.
convinced
of
the
worth
of
the
NDP's
Valley.
1,720
acres.
acres
of
the
1,704
it
had
asked
for,
speculation
did
not
take
into
account
"I
don't
know
the
reason
behind
the
highly-parised
land-preservation
The
government
has
had
considerable
Chilliwack
had
a
good
case.
Even
This
very
tough
move
by
the
Bennett
the
premier
himself,
who
more
and
decision.
All
I
do
know
is
that
the
policies,
or
did
the
new
government
political
pressure
imposed
on
it,
largely
though
the
land
in
question
was
clearly
government
ended
weeks
of
speculation
more
tends
to
come
down
on
the
progressive
socialists
won.
It's
a
funny
world.
simply
want
to
dismantle
them
for
polit'
through
the
Ingenuous
minister
of
the
arable,
this
community
has
been
pressed
that
the
administration
wanted
to
dismantle
side
of
issues,
and
Impose
his
"Our
plans
are
all
shot.
We've
got
no
leal
purposes?
environment,
Jim
Neilsen,
a
former
in
for
the
past
five
years
by
the
encroaching
the
land-preservation
policies
will
on
his
cabinet.
place
to
go.
All
our
land
is
damn
good
For
months,
the
cabinet
of
Premier
radio
hot-line
operator,
who
has
publicly
Lower
Mainland
area
of
Greater
erected
by
the
former
NDP
regime.
In
The
reaction
of
Chilliwack
municipal
land.
So
there's
no
place
for
housing.
Bill
Bennett
has
considered
a
request
by
extolled
the
application
of
the
township
Vancouver,
burgeoning
through
recent
weeks,
six
members
of
the
B.C.
officials
has
been
not
unsurprising.
Says
And
there's
no
place
for
industry."
Citizen
photo
by
Dave
MUtib
.
Two
Dawson
Creek
players
block
a
shot
by
Kitimat's
Louis
Campagnola
in
opening
Opening
game
of
1976
high
school
volleyball
championships,
won
by
Kitimat
15-14,
13-15,
15-4.
game
The
W-tearh
tournament,
at
Prince
George
George
Senior
Secondary
School,
will
end
with
the
championship
final
Saturday
at
8
p.m.
See
story
page
17.
Body
finally
laid
to
rest
by
JAN-UDO
WENZEL
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
A
combination
of
incidents
led
to
a
delay
in
the
burial
of
a
city
woman
who
died
last
Thursday,
The
funeral
was
to
be
held
Monday
afternoon
but
when
the
funeral
party
arrived
at
the
cemetery
no
grave
had
.been
dug
and
the
casket
had
to
be
left
standing
above
ground,
to
the
dismay
of
the
family.
According
to
city
hall
this
is
the
first
time
an
incident
of
this
nature
has
happened
in
Prince
George
and
It
was
a
matter
of
several
breakdowns
of
communication
along
the
line
from
the
purchase
of
the
plot
to
the
actual
burial.
Customarily,
the
funeral
chapel
In
charge
of
arrangements
purchases
the
plot
from
the
city.
In
this
case
the
dead
woman's
son-in-law
bought
the
plot
Friday
afternoon
on
instruction
from
the
funeral
home.
The
city
employee
who
usually
handles
these
matters
was
on
a
delayed
lunch
hour
and
someone
else
took
care
of
the
purchase,
not.
informing
the
regular
employee,
a
girl.
This
was
on
Friday
afternoon.
Usually
the
regular
girl
immediately
informs
the
cemetery
crew
foreman
but
in
this
case
the
slip
of
information
on
the
burial
was
put
into
the
foreman's
call
box
without
him
being
informed.
THE
WEATHER
Sunny
skies
with
cloudy
periods
and
some
evening
fog
patches
are
forecast
for
the
next
few
days.
A
trace
of
mixed
rain
and
snow
was
recorded
Wednesday.
.
Wednesday's
high
was
0
with
an
overnight
low
of
-3.
Low
today,
-8
with
a
high
of
0
predicted.
On
Dec.
2,
1975
the
high
was
-5;
the
low,
-9.
,
The
chance
of
snow
is
forecast
for
Sunday,
Shortly
before
quitting
time
Friday
the
foreman
called
the
funeral
chapel
and
asked
whether
there
was
a
funeral
Monday.
Since
the
chapel
had
not
purchased
the
lot,
the
foreman
was
told
there
was
no
funeral.
Consequently
the
foreman
did
not
check
his
box
at
city
hall
Monday
morning
since
he
had
been
told
there
was
no
burial.
Therefore
no
grave
was
dug.
"It
was
simply
a
deviation
from
the
regular
routine
all
along
the
way
resulting
in
a
delayed
burial,"
said
city
clerk
Peter
Patullo.
The
casket
was"
buried,
however,
by
5
p.m.
Monday.
13-
VODV,,
Prince
George,
British
Columbia
Pulp
mills
struggle
byELISOPOW
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
Local
pulp
mills
are
facing
tough
economic
times
and
shutdowns
while
the
logging
and
lumber
industry
is
showing
a
recovery.
Gordon
Thompson,
vice-president
of
pulp
operations
for
Northwood
Pulp
and
Timber
said
the
pulp
mill
will
shut
down
between
Dec.
24
and
Jan.
3
because
of
depressed
world
market
conditions.
About
340
workers
will
be
affected.
Dave
Mclvor,
industrial
relations
spokesman
for
Prince
George
and
Intercontinental
pulp
mills,
said
there
will
be
no
shutdown
of
pulp
operations
this
year
but
the
mills
could
go
down
next
year
if
market
conditions
don't
pick
up:
There
are
about
700
workers
at
the
two
mills.
The
only
shutdown
at
Prince
George
and
Intercontinental
will
occur
on
the
paper
machine
which
normally
shuts
down
between
Dec.
24
and
Jan.
2.
The
lumber
and
logging
industry
is
in
better
shape.
Van
Scoffield,
spokesman
for
the
northern
interior
sector
of
the
Council
of
Forest
Industries,
said
today
the
lumber
market
is
good
and
logging
should
offer
'employment
opportunities
throughout
the
winter.
He
said
on
the
average,
sawmills
are
entering
winter
with
lower
than
usual
Inventories
and
there
has
been
a
noticable
improvement
in
the
selling
price
of
lumber.
But
if
sawmills
are
holding
their
own
or
inching
ahead,
there
is
little
optimism
about
improved
pulp
market
conditions.
Thompson
said
he
did
not
envision
any
improvement
in
the
immediate
future
and
that
could
mean
other
shutdowns
in
1977.
He
pointed
out
that
it
was
not
only
B.C.
feeling
the
slack
in
pulp
sales
but
other
countries
as
well.
"The
Scandinavians
have
been
stockpiling
pulp
heavily,"
he
said.
'
In
an
interview
last
month;
Mark
Gunther,
president
of
Prince
George
and
Intercontinental
pulp
mills
said
there
were
a
number
of
variables
effecting
the
pulp
market.
He
pointed
to
a
slumping
British
pound,
a
general
slackening
of
consumer
demand
for
paper
products
and
a
slower
than
expected
economic
recovery
in
Japan
as
problem
areas.
There
is
also
good
news
and
bad
news
ahead
for
the
pulp
industry,.
Next
week
the
Organization
of
Petroleum
Exporting
See
PULP
page
2
NOW
HEAR
THIS)
9
An
LSD
flashback
by
avictim
of
an
indecent
assault
became
an
issue
in
court
recently
when
the
defence
counsel
tried
to
use
it
to'
discredit
the
victim's
testimony.
The
victim
admitted
he
had
been
given
a
medical
discharge
from
the
Canadian
Armed
Forces
after
he
told
his
Sergeant
he
had
seen
a
lion's
head
while
resting
on
his
bunk.
Was
it
a
male
or
female
lion
queried
the
defence
counsel.
"Oh,
I
don't
know,"
said
the
witness.
"It
was
just
a
plain
ordinary
lion."
As
the
performance
of
Fiddler
on
the
Roof
continues
to
play
to
packed
houses
the
audience
may
notice
increasingly
strange
reactions
during
the
wedding
scene.
The
chickens
used
during
the
gift
giving
are
frozen
during
the
day
then
re-thawed
for
the
scene.
There's
some
concern
that
if
the
play
runs
much
longer
than
the
weekend
the
chickens
could
end
up
with
the
fiddler
on
the
roof.