'A law for the powerful and another for Sid Jones?'
                          CASE PARALLELS THAT OF AMERICAN ICBC BOSS
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Friday, March 10,1978 Vol. 22; No. 49 Prince George, British Columbia
         by JAN-UDO WENZEL Citizen Staff Reporter
  Sam Jones of Prince George wants his brother Sid admitted to Canada as a legal immigrant and he will do anything to achieve this goal.
  Last year Sid Jones was refused admission to Canada because Canada Manpower said his prospective employer, the City of Prince George, had not sufficiently advertised for a Canadian to take a building inspector's iob.
  "What do we have in Canada — a law for the powerful and another for the ordinary citizen?” Sam Jones asked, pointing to the recent admission to Canada of the new head of the Insurance Corp. of B.C.. an American.
  Last year, the city saia it had advertised across the country for 14 months and not found a suitable employee for the job as city building inspector.
  But Manpower countered that the city had not used its facilities and came up with several candidates who, however, were also found to be unsuitable.
  Sid Jones was forced to leave when his visitor’s visa expired because Manpower would not relent, although he had been cleared by the immigration arm of the department.
  Now Sam Jones points to the case of Robbie Sherrell, the new head of ICHC who had been refused entry on the same grounds as Sid Jones. After one meeting between Immigra-
tion Minister Bud Cullen and Pat McGeer, the B.C. minister responsible for ICBC, Cullen reversed his ruling and Sherrell was admitted to work in Canada.
 The federal government’s refusal to let Sherrell enter had been based on claims that ICBC’s board directors had not sufficiently looked for a Canadian with the qualifications to do the job.
 “Sherrell doesn’t even have relatives in this country and many others get their family here without problems. So why didn’t they let Sid come to live here?” Sam Jones asked today.
 He feels his brother has a greater right to come to Canada than most others.
 “My brother served with the 409 Bomber Squadron during the Second World War. That was a Canadian squadron. I also served in the Royal Canadian Navy,” Sam said.
 The first step in trying to get Sid back here was to be taken today. Sam Jones was to go to Immigration today and fill out the necessary papers.
He will also approach Prince George-Peace River MP Frank Oberle, Fort George MLA Howard Lloyd and Vic Lit-nosky, who recently announced he will seek the Liberal nomination in the Prince George-Bulkley Valley federal riding.
 “If McGeer went to bat for Sherrell, I don’t see why Lloyd should not get involved in this,” Sam Jones said.
 Sam Jones has lived in Canada since the 1940s and his wife Jean is Canadian-born.
 Seal hunt start delayed by ice
  ST. ANTHONY, Nfld. (CP) — The seal pup kill might be cut by as much as 25 per cent this year because of Ice conditions in the area known as the Front off northern Newfoundland.
  Heavy ice is clinging to the Labrador coast and preventing sealing ships from reaching places where the harp seals have chosen to bear their young.
  The blood stains of afterbirth showed on Thursday that the whelp of seal pups was well under way on ice about 400 i kilometres north of here.
  Four Canadian and four Norwegian ships were trying to find a safe way of getting into the ice pack which has been driven by weather into a solid sheet of ice between 4.5 and six metres thick among the islands off the Labrador coast.
  The harp seal herd appeared to be well out of reach of hunt protesters from the Greenpeace Foundation of British Columbia who are expected to begin arriving in this northern Newfoundland town today.
  Fisheries officers who flew over the ice Thursday said pupping appeared to be well advanced and most of the young seals already had been born.
  The pups, known to Newfoundlanders as white coats, are the main target of hunters from the ships but it appeared there was a possibility the young pups could be weaned before they could be reached by the vessels.
BULLETIN •
  VANCOUVER (CP) - A custom* official here says 12 grenade launchers and six automatic rifles were seized by Canada customs from cargo off a freighter docked in Vancouver just prior to the opening of the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
   The official, who wished to remain anonymous, said Thursday that the launchers and rifles were discovered in a crate labelled: used shotguns.
   "Twenty or 30 used shotguns were invoiced and we wondered why these were coming in. We became suspicious and we found the launchers."
   The crate, he said, also contained the shotguns that were declared.
   He refused to give the exact date of seizure, their place of origin, their destination or the name and nationality d the ship carrying them.
   Vancouver is one of the few ports left in the world that still allows foreign sailors to use their own small boats to get ashore from their ships at anchorage instead of using shorebased water taxis.
IN CANADA
CitiMa photo by Tim Swanky
                       New spectator stands for the logger sports area at the Exhibition ,	Grounds near completion as carpenter-helper Terry Lee nails guard
 New stands railings. The new stands are part of a complete rebuilding of spectator bleachers at the grounds. A viewing area For the horse-racing track is next to be built.
SIDES FAR APART
Hydro walkout seen
Miners
ordered
back
  VICTORIA (CP) - Labor Minister Allan Williams failed Thursday in a personal effort to settle the British Columbia Hydro labor dispute after five hours of talks with union and compay representatives.
   Williams summonsed the unions and management to a meeting here in an attempt to avert a strike but said later a walkout might be required before the impasse comes to a head.
   “The division between the parties is significant, and one which perhaps some work stoppage is going to be
 required before some modification is possible,” the minister told a news conference.
   “The issues are principally those affecting the length of the contract and monetary matters. The parties are far apart in this respect and the issues are not such as could be resolved at this time by the intervention of a third party.” “As a result, today’s meetings have broken off, and it will be up to the parties to determine their next steps.” Williams said he and his officials are available to meet with both parties at any time.
   The three unions, representing 8,000 B.C. Hydro employees, will meet today with representatives of the B.C. Federation of Labor to consider what action they will take, Al Ashton, president and business agent of the Amalgamated Transit Union, said following the meeting with Williams.
   The ATU, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Office and Technical Employees Union are in a legal position to strike at any time in separate contract disputes.
Land to be put in 'holding zone'
     by DON MORBERG Citizen Staff Reporter
  ‘‘To prevent more Blackburns,” Fraser-Fort George Regional District has decided to put all land near communities in a holding zone.
   The zone will prevent residential development until community and settlement plans are completed, but will not apply to applications currently before the board or highways approving departments. These include several ‘hobby farm* developments.
   Regional planner Yvonne Harris announced the holding zones following Thursday’s regional board meeting. She said the concept will become board policy as soon as appropriate policy statements are drawn up.
   The holding zone calls for a 35-acrc minimum on all land less than three
 miles from the Prince George city boundaries and less than two miles from all other community boundaries.
  “It is to prevent more rural-residential (development) just outside community boundaries,” Harris said. “The concept will now be referred to open meetings.”
   Harris said the planning department had been working on the concept since September.
   “The city supports the concept,” Harris said, “but they did not request it.” Harris said subdivisions of areas over 100 acres will be permitted as long as the land is being divided into one to three parcels.
   “There will be other exceptions,” Harris said, “to prevent personal hardship and allow for family land severances.”
   Harris said the proposal will go to the regional plan and community settlement plan meetings.
   “it’s not a freeze,” Harris said. “In a freeze tliere would be no subdivisions.”
   Any applications currently before the regional district or the highways department approving office would be handled in the usual manner, Harris said; the holding zone will not come into effect until ratified by the regional board.
   Harris said the proposal was following the provincial guidelines laid out in the Municipal Act.
   The Blackburnarea east of the city caused regional planners headaches because of lack of planning and residential demands for services which were expensive.
  WASHINGTON (AP) - As contract talks resume in an attempt to end a coal strike that began 95 days ago, federal marshals are going into the U.S. coalfields with a court order telling miners to go back to work.
   There were few indications, however, that many of the 160,000 striking miners planned to halt their walkout, although President Carter said Thursday that he believes “a substantial portion of them will comply with the law.”
   Meanwhile, union and coal industry negotiators planned to meet today at the United Mine Workers (UMW) headquarters to search for a settlement of their bitter dispute, which has forced electric utilities to curtail power and industries to lay off thousands of workers.
  Sources said UMW President Arnold Miller and his bargaining team were to meet with three officials from the Bituminous Coal Operators Association without the presence of federal mediators.
   The two sides have not bargained on a new national contract since the industry agreed to union contract demands two weeks ago under the threat of presidential intervention. The contract was rejected by the union membership by a 2-to-l margin last weekend.
   Immediately after U.S. District Judge Aubrey Robinson issued his temporary back-towork order Thursday under the Taft-Hartley Act, U.S. marshals began distributing copies of the order.
Russians rap spy campaign
  MOSCOW (Reuter) -The Soviet Union accused Canadian police tonight of waging a constant campaign of provocations and espionage against Soviet officials and suggested the Canadian government has ignored protests over several years.
    A long and clearly authoritative article in the government newspaper Izvestia said Canadian agents have sought to recruit Soviet diplomats and trade officials as spies and have punctured the tires of their cars when they were on official business.
    The article was published a month after the Canadian government expelled from or barred from returning to Canada 13 Soviet officials who it said had sought to bribe a Canadian security official to spy for Moscow.
   The Soviet Union has taken no reciprocal action, its normal practice when its diplomats in the West are expelled. External Affairs Minister Donald Jamieson has said more Soviet citizens would be asked to leave Canada if Canadian diplomats were ordered out of Moscow.
    Izvestia said Soviet officials in several Canadian cities are subjected to ‘‘regular provocations” which include “telephoned threats, impudent tailing on city streets, attempts to encourage treason, suggestions that they should refuse to return to the Soviet Union and attempts to plant anti-Soviet literature on them.”
    “And there are other facts: without any reason Soviet vehicles are held up on highways, their tires are punctured and other obstacles are placed in the way of Soviet officials carrying out their duties,” the article said.
    “In these cases, the participants in the outrages were representatives of the Canadian special services."
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   OTTAWA (CP) - Progressive Conservative MP Otto Jelinek has presented the government with a list of 14 diplomats in Canada he says are agents of the Soviet secret police.
   Jelinek told the Commons today he obtained the information from a reliable source who has provided him with a similar list in the past.
   Jelinek said he has passed his information on to Solicitor-General Jean-Jacques Blais and Prime Minister Trudeau and urged the government to take steps to beef toughen up restricitions against diplomats entering Canada.
Convicts
demand
mediators
   ST. JEROME, Que. (CP) -Three convicts holding seven guards hostage in a provincial prison here have demanded the addition of two new mediators to the team attemptng to negotiate a settlement.
   “1 want these two guys,” said Edgar Roussel, one of the hostage takers, in an interview broadcast early today on a French-language Montreal radio station. He gave no reason for the request.
    Roussel, 32, said he and fellow convicts Roland Simard, 26, and Lucien Jacques, 32, want Claude Jacques, Lucien’s brother, and radio reporter Georges Aubry to join the negotiations, which have continued since the drama began Wednesday afternoon.
TODAY
This week:
Killed:..................................O
Injured:...............................1
Arrested as impnired:....16 This year:
Killed:..................................2
Injured:.............................87
To same date 1977
Killed:..................................1
Injured:...........................131
FEATURED INSIDE
 t Someone has to win the Cariboo Hockey League playoff championship here Saturday. Page 14.
 • The Duchess Park junior Condors were impressive in their first game of the B.C. junior boys’ basketball tournament. Page 16.
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
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THE WEATHER
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   A frontal system through the Prince George area is forecast to bring the city mainly cloudy skies with some sunny periods today and during the weekend.
   The forecast high today is 5, the low -5. The high Thursday was 6, the low -1, with 2.5 cm of snow. On this date last year the high was 4, the low -4.
 ( NOW HEAR THIS)
 •	A city cat that spent six days in a tree came down on its own Thursday, just as everyone a local woman asked to help said it would. Lesley Dunn had called the fire department, the city pound, the SPCA and B.C. Hydro. A fire department official told her it would come down in three days, when it got hungry. When The Citizen phoned the city engineering department, a spokesman there said if the cat had been in the tree for six days, it would come down twice as fast when it was ready.
 •	Chamber of commerce executive secretary Ethol Bliss reported in late for Thursday’s meeting with the excuse that she poked herself in the eye with a pen. “She dotted her eye," Ron Racette commented, and then denied the authorship of the joke.
 •	A sure sign of spring. Helicopter pilot Danny Wiebe says he killed two hungry mosquitoes this week in a trip up the McGregor Valley.
7Vo got this great song that tells how stupid tall people are!"