Council asks secondary sewage costs By Greg Melntyre Cifizen Staff Reporter City council called for more information on sewage treat treatment ¬ ment today in the face of mounting public concern about pollution of the Fraser River Mayor Harold Moffat asked the city Administration to find costs of improving the citys present plant up to the secon secondary ¬ dary level The mayor asked for an estimate of the tax Impact of secondary sewage along with other costs that will face city taxpayers over the next five years Council also voted to write the principal pollution con control ¬ trol branch a note of concern about the lack of information available about pollutionof the Fraser River A group called Citizens for a Clean River has circulated a petition calling on city hall and the provincial government to improve plans and stand standards ¬ ards for sewage treatment on the Traser River The petition is to be pre presented ¬ sented duringahearing in Vic Victoria ¬ toria March 9 into a Prince George application for an ex m rtin n DinL- Hull Wont lilt Hifcu a ivv twice to the provincial build building ¬ ing for different pictures of tardy motorists picking up theit 1971 decals The reason he left his car at home todaj was that he concen concentrated ¬ trated so nuch on his picture taking that he forgot to purchase decals him self A Aid Jack HeinrlchUsmnt w lng under public pressure for the city to speed upsewagetreat ment plans Someone came around to the house with a peti petition ¬ tion that the city is not doing enough about secondary treat treatment ¬ ment which is a bunch of mal arkeye assume thathedldnt sign a Two experimental plays are being performed in Prince George today by Creation 2 a group touring the province under the sponsorship of the BC Cen Centennial ¬ tennial Committee The plays have been described as some somewhat ¬ what unorthodox but compelling Students will see Whatever Hap Happened ¬ pened To The Tribe Of Living Water When They Invented The Pump this afternoon in the Van ier Hall Dead Sun Rise is being performed for the public at 7 pm V tension to its permit to dis discharge ¬ charge partially treated sew sewage ¬ age into the river The mayor said he would like to know the dissolved oxy oxygen ¬ gen content of the river al var various ¬ ious points from upstream to the rivers mouth There is no place we can turn to anybody to prove or disprove contamination Tills Is information that should be given by the engineers at the pollution control branch the mayor said Aid Elroy Garden said that even the slow moving stand standard ¬ ard types are beginning to express concern about the citys plans for sewage treat treatment ¬ ment Aid Alf Nunweiler said a start should be made now on planning for secondary treat treatment ¬ ment to avoid a possible five year lag in planning when pri primary ¬ mary treatment is completed In 1073 City engineer Ernie Obst told council he has requested information about sewage standards and pollution from the provincial pollution con control ¬ trol branch but received no reply Theatre for college Mayor Harold Moffat pro proposed ¬ posed today that the citycom plete the half built little thea theatre ¬ tre building at the junction oi highways 97 and ICandrent it to the College of New Cale Caledonia ¬ donia City council tabled the pro proposal ¬ posal until they can get a con concrete ¬ crete offer from the college council Mayor Moffat suggested the city spend 75000 to put the theatre baildlng into useable shap3 then rent it to the col college ¬ lege on the understanding it be improved over five or 10 years The mayors proposal would accomplish three alms give the college neded space for an arts building save the city 100000 on the total cost of upgrading and give the little thatre group space to per perform ¬ form The miyoi said the college is awaiting word on its future from the minister of educa education ¬ tion The college has submitted a proposal to amalgamate with BC Vocational School but is awaiting word on the plan from Education Minister Donald Brothers The college is now using space in the Senior Secondary School A possibe site for the new college campus is at the south side of the vocational school Convention centre study seen City council today ear earmarked ¬ marked 500 for possibly the largest project in the life times of the present council The 500 will finance a start on plans or an eventual multimillion-dollar downtown cul cultural ¬ tural and convention complex A seven acre reserve has been set aside at the southeast side of the Inn of the North for the project 1 cant think of anything in our lifetime that will have a bigger price tag on it said Aid Lome McCulsh Aid Joe ter Heide urged the city to set aside monej In its five year budget for a start on the giant convention centre A recent report from the citys recreation com Tiission put a 5 million price tag on the proposal A complex to Include a variety of arts and recreation uses at the downtown site was Included In consultant planner Des Parkers Centrum model unveiled in early 1967 City manager Arran Thom Thomson ¬ son told council that the Four Seasons pool opened In June 1 970 was part of the long range complex Teamsters back at work today VANCOUVER CP About 3500 members of the Teamsters union were to return to their jobs in British Columbias truckirg industry toda ending a strikelockout which began Feb 19 Some 1800 union members voted Sunday to obey a backto work order issued Fridaj bj Premier WAC Bennett Theie were fewer than 25 dis dissenting ¬ senting votes despite the fact the British Columbia Federation of Laboi asked the tiuck diiv ers to force a showdown with the goernment on the contro controversial ¬ versial Mediation Commission Act passed In 1968 Under the act the union and companies faced maximum fines of 10000 tor refusal to comply with a government order giving Teamsters until todav to return to work Individ uals could be fined 1000 and Pdditlonal 150 daih if the defiance continued Senator Ed Lawson Canadian director of the Teamoters said the union will seek to reopen ne gotiations on all aspects of their contract with the Amalgamated Transport Labor RelationsAsso elation bargaining agent for 80 per cent of the provinces truck trucking ¬ ing industrj Before the strikelockout began the union had agreed to all of a proposed contract but sought a struckgoods clause which would petmit Teamsters to refuse to handle goods moved across picket lines Senator Lawson said truckers will continue to i efuse to handle such goods leaving It up to em ployers to press the issue The work stoppage began with a strike by 50 Teamsters which set off an industry lockout sev eral hours later in the Prince George Senior Sec ondarj School cafeteria Both are free A One of our readers reports that the City of Kamloops has embarked on the const tuct ion of rot its first not its second but its third indoor ice arena He suggests that Mayor Moffat should perhaps make a trip to Kamloops to see how its done A The city RCMP traffic de- tachnifnt is looking for any anyone ¬ one with Information about the owner or location of a gold col ored half ton pickup camper truck involved in an accident at 2 am Saturday near Tenth and Victoria The truck is believed to have mnor damage to its front end Contact Corp Ed Olfert at the city police office 502 2141 a The German consulate gen w eral in Vancouver donated 46 new German books to the Prince George Public Library last week because of the large number of German people In this area Li brarian John Backhouse added the books represent the German cul ture as well as the language and are of top quality BJMARC1971 Vol 15j No 41 20 Pages BELFAST AP - British soldier was burned to death early todaj when ambushers In the Roman Catholic Bogside dis trlct of Londonderry threw 10 Snowmobile car collide A snowmobile and a car collided on Cowait near Peden Hill Sunday sending a passenger on the snowmobile to hospital with a broken leg The machine driven by John Krause 28 of Parkridge Heights collided with a cir driven by Gairy Odiowski 21 of Prince George Krauses wife Irene 2 3 sus sustained ¬ tained a broken leg There was S75 damage to the snowmobile and 150 damage to the car Krause has been charged with operating a snowmobile or highway Bandy VANCOUVER CP The fed eral government has recalled an organizer with the British Co lumbia unemployed who was criticized for allegedlj telling welfare recipients how to de fraud the welfare sjstem Liberal MP Ray Perrault of Burnaby Seymour said Saturday the organizer Alex Bandy of Vancouver has been recalled about two months early from a three month appointment and now Is writing his final report for the department of the secre secretary ¬ tary of state I am Informed by the secre tary of state department that IT3T -MjpTI 1 SHMHnS Freds alive and well By Dave Milne Fred Van der Post is alive andwellon Babine Lake and at this moment snowshoelnghis way steadily from last nights stop at Topley Landing to his Fort St James destination Flying In a ski equipped Cessna 185 owned by Northern Mountain Airlines and piloted by Pete Davis it took a surprisingly short time for us to spot Fred on the endless expanse of Babine Lake Northwood Pulp Ltd Woods Man Manager ¬ ager Doug Little was the first tc spot him and we dropped down for tea and chocolate Fred was exuberant as he approached the plane and true to his word he was as fit as the day he left We intercepted him four miles south of Old Fort on Babine close to 70 miles into his 200 mile trek With a cup of steaming tea laced with rum in his hands he talked happily of his journey to date fire bombs at his patrolling land rover In Belfast a British arm bul let in the stomach sent a 16 earold to hospital as troops exchanged shots w ith snipers of the Irish Republican Army and explosions reverberated thiough the Catholic quarter Isolated explosions were set off else where in Northern Ireland An army spokesman said about 20 jouths ambushed a three man military police patrol In Londonderrj The driver was thrown clear as the vehicle spun into a w all The attackers stoned him but Bogside residents dashed from their homes to drag the other two men from the back of the burning vehicle One died before reaching hospital the other was not Injured seriously The driver caught one at tacker and handed him over to police the army said It seems as though the at Citizen He understood now wny the mountain passfrom New Hazelton toBabinehadbeeneliminatedfrom the future Centennial 300 snowmobile race Some of the grades in there must be 45 degrees I ran into blizzard conditions the second day so bad I had to use my compass I found my way out of one box canyon by following the tracks of a wolf He had made the same mistake I had Fred admitted he was a little behind schedule but he explained that it was difficult to pass some of the villages and old historical points In the area without exploring When he left to continue his trek he assured us he would be in Ft St James ahead of the snowmobiles Fred turned down the offer of a bottle of rum Weight is my worst problem he commented With an attitude like that Tred Van der Post should make it to Fort St James ahead of the snowmobiles iUK soldier burned i in Bogside ambush tack was organize d the spokesman said Everything happened together There were 10 petrol bombs In the air at once Until last month the British force that came to Northern Ire land In August 1969 to put down Protestant Cathollc rioting had not lost a man But todays victim was the third in a month and the third peacekeeper killed during a violent weekend IRA machine gun fire brought down sLx unarmed policemen Satur day morning and two died from their wounds Since the traditional political and economic rivalry between Northern Irelands Protestant majority and Catholic minority escalated Into street fighting and worse in August 1969 45 persons have been officially listed as killed Including the hrpo soldiers and five police men Unofficial estimates put the dead at more than 50 -Kfl US 5 year plan for lumber OTTAWA CP - five year program to promote new markets abroad for British Columbia softwood plywood and lumber was announced to today ¬ day by Trade Minister Jean Luc Pepin He said in a statement that the program to cost15 mil million ¬ lion in its first year will generate a significant num number ¬ ber of new jobs Mr Pepin estimited that the program could contribute to a DO-per-cent increase in ply plywood ¬ wood production anda30-per-cnt increase inlumberResl dues from such production would sustain further pulp ca capacity ¬ pacity of 525000 tons a year The program will include greater activity at trade fairs especially In Britain and Europe more production of technical and sales literature and an Increase in field staff The forest industries of British Columbia produced 15 billion worth of products In 19G9 and employed 100000 workers rap movement of oil OTTAWA CP - An all party group of MPs says the movement of oil by pipeline and ship from Alaska to Washington state shapes up as potentially the greatest land and water pol pollution ¬ lution threat of the decade The 18 MPs Including nine from British Columbia sent their letter to the department of the interior in Washington for inclusion In hearings in Anchor age Alaska on a pipeline from Prudhoe Bay across the state to Valdez The MPs said in their Feb 22 letter that such a pipeline would result in a shuttle service of Hnnt tankers in ominous sue cession along the unspoiled coast of British Columbia A huge oil spill would be only a matter of time The letter was signed by Six Liberals Bud Orange Northwest Territories Tom G o o d e Burnaby Richmond Delta Jerry Pringle Fraser Valley East Douglas Hogarth New Westminster David Groos Victoria E B Osier Winnipeg South Centre Five Conservatives Louis Co meau South Western Nova Ambrose H Peddle Grand Falls White Bay Labrador Marcel Lambert Edmonton West John Lundrigan Gander Twllllneate Marvin Howe Wellington-Grey - Dufferin Water ¬ loo Six New Democrats Mark Rose Fraser Valley West Ran dolph Harding Kootenay West Barry Mather Surrey Thomas Barnett Comox Alberni Stan ley Knowles Winnipeg North Centre and Grace Maclnnes Vancouver Klngsway recalled from welfare some of the statements he Bandy made in northern B C were not the kind that should be made by a federal govern government ¬ ment empUAee Mr Perrault said He wo ld not elaborate On Sundb MP Grant Deach man L -r Vancouver Quadra said the 15 Liberal MPs from B c coJld not accept tne nir ing of aggressive demonstrators like rranay imy me buvuuk ment iw are now satisfied that the Min nf Bandv was not an ac cldelft he said Nor was It a mistake at we wa - It was in fact a policy of the citizenship branch Mr Deachman said the prov inces Liberal MPs would take whatever action necessary to stop such a policy It Is not necessary iu uem- onstrate the condition oi me poor by using them in loud demonstrations we jusi wn approve of this policy Earlier this year Mr Bandy 25 led a poor peoples march on Vancouver city hall He also made news when he resigned from the board of the United Community Services soon afhr Its annual campaign began criticizing operation of the United Appeal President of the Unemployed Citizens Welfare Improvement Council here he was appointed by the federal government along with 17 others under the Action Research and Stimulation of EmDlovment Project funded with 44000 from the citizen ship branch Provincial Rehabilitation Mln lster P A Gaglardl said in the house that Mr Bandy was hired to teach the poor how to defraud welfare authorities Mr Bandy was not available for comment JitS if 4rt2 locxopy prince georgeIbritishcolumbia Viet protest Bomb bla S6na WASHINGTON AP - An early morning bomb blast linked to a protest against the United States sup supported ¬ ported South Vietnamese invasion of Laos ripped up an interior section of the Senate wing of the U S Capitol today It caused extensive damage but no injuries st rips te wing This is apparentlj a political bombing said Senate Majority Leader Hugh Scott Dem Pa Robert G Dunphy Senate sergeant at arms said a male who called the Capitol switch board to give advance warning of the blast mentioned the Lao tlan invasion Scott had earlier quoted Dun phy as sajing a letter linked to the bombing also had been found but Dunphy said that was misunderstanding Capitol police and FBI spokes men would not confirm or derj thp link to an antl war protest The Senate chamber itself was not damaged by the blast The Senate convened as sched uled in mid morning although visitors were not permitted in the Senate wing of the Capitol Meanwhile President Nixon issued a statement through White House spokesman Ronald L Zlegler calling the bombing a shocking act of violence that will outrage all Americans The blast pulverized a mens room and damaged other rooms Perhaps colncldentally it came 17 jears to the day after Puerto Pican nationalists shot and wounded five congressmen from the visitors gallery of the House of Representatives It also caused the most exten sive damage to the building since the British set it afire in 1814 durintr the war of 1812 after American forces had burned down iork as loronto as then known Scott said the effect of the bombing will be unfortunate both in the U S and internatlon ally Its likely to be exagger ated he said They wont re alize that its one bomb in one washroom Scott also took the occasion to criticize federal judges in the District of Columbia accusing them of too much leniency He said even if those who placed the bomb are arrested my guess would be theyll never go to jail not with the tjpe of appellate court we have in the District of Columbia SOS faled to save man MACKENZIE RCMP search parties found the body of a trap trapper ¬ per in a cabin Saturday after a distress signal was found stamp stamped ¬ ed in the snow 130 miles north of here Samuel Keene Jr 33 of Us- lika Lake ws found in a cabin at 10 am Saturday It is believed the man died of exDOsure but police are not cer tain how Ions he had been out there An aircraft flying over the area Friday afternoon saw an SOS stamped in the snow No inqiest has been ordered Into the death yet Inside today A Business 5 Classified 13 14 15 16 Comics 12 Crossword 12 Editorial 4 Home and family 6 Hoio scope 12 Second front 9 Sports 10 11 Television 12 i Ill t And where do you think you re going Weather a Cloudy this afternoon w with snow tonight Temp Temperatures ¬ eratures warmer with high 25 today and a low of 15 tonight Cloudy Tuesday with periods of snow high in the low 30s n Gait Wilson of Prince George is the new chairman of the Col College ¬ lege of New Caledonia council He was elected by acclamation Saturday at a meeting in Van derhoof centre of one of the five school districts responsible for the operation of the college Ed Westhover of Quesnei is vice chairman Announcing his committees Wilson said Im a strong be liever In trying to bring council members into the affairs of the college The planning committee is obviously extremely Impor tant depending on whether or not the minister of education sees fit to give us anything to plan The college uses Prince George Senior Secondary class classrooms ¬ rooms and has not yet received approval to build Members of the committee are Wilson Westhover Duncan Frame of Burns Lake Dr AW Mooney of Vanderhoof Mrs Jean Kellett of Prince George and Mrs Bernice Haggarty of Burns Lake Mrs Marion Knoerr and Peter Capewell both of Smithers and Mrs Kellett were appointed to the personnel committee Members of the finance com committee ¬ mittee are district superinten superintendent ¬ dent of schools Dave Todd and Colin Sabiston both of Prince George Westhover and John Boates both of Quesnel were appointed to the student relations com m ittee Bi HBhI 1 Jw- ImB t- i BiflR Cold weather last night caused motorists like Dave Milne to use blowtorches to affix their licence decals Decals require above zero temperatures for adequate adhesion