ROYAL DIVORCE
'Snowdon plans to marry'
   LONDON (Reuter) — Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth, has agreed to a divorce because her estranged husband, Lord Snowdon, wants to marry a film production assistant, Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, informed sources said today.
   Princess Margaret, 47, sixth in line to the throne, In announcing Wednesday that she was seeking the divorce, said she had no plans to remarry.
   The couple separated two years ago after 16 years of marriage.
    Since then, there has been controversy over the princess’ friendship with Roddy Llewellyn, 31, a would-be pop singer.
   Lord Snowdon, 48, met Mrs. Lindsay-Hogg in London in 1974, but their relationship was kept secret until 1976.
    Mrs. Lindsay-Hogg, 33, daughter of a wealthy Irish dress designer, was divorced from film director Michael Lindsay-Hogg in 1971. She now works for a television company. Lord Snowdon, who is a photographer, and Mrs. Lindsay-Hogg have worked together on several assignments. They visited Australia together for six weeks in 1974.
 A spokesman for the princess said her current illness
  - gastroenteritis — for which she is being treated in a London hospital, was not connected with the divorce, and that she would resume her royal duties as soon as she was fit.
    Lord Snowdon said last night: "I just hope you will give support and encouragement to Princess Margaret when she comes out of hospital and goes about her duties again.”
   He was speaking on arrival at a ceremony in a London hotel where he was receiving an award from the Designers’ and Art Directors' Association.
    Llewellyn is on a vacation in Tangier, Morocco, his agent said.
   A member of Parliament belonging to the ruling Labor party said he would submit a question in Parliament to Prime Minister James Callaghan asking what constitutional changes might flow from the divorce.
   The parliamentarian, John Lee, said the divorce "makes it possible for her to remarry, and if she chooses to do that, there is an inevitable constitutional problem to be resolved.”
   Ahead of Princess Margaret in succession to the throne are Queen Elizabeth’s four children and Princess Anne's son, Peter.
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 Thursday, May 11, 1978	Vol. 22; No. 92 Prince George. British Columbia
UNCERTAINTY ENDS
Trudeau decides against election
  OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Trudeau announced Thursday there will not be a general federal election this summer.
   He made the announcement in the Commons, which has been tense and cranky because of weeks of uncertainty over when, or if, the election would be held.
   He said he has reached the conclusion that Parliament should continue to sit to find solutions to the country's problems.
   Replying to Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark, Trudeau said it is apparent that the Commons wants to deal with the concerns of the people. Issues could be dealt with in the House or in an election campaign. He had concluded that for now the House is the best place.
   There were boos from the opposition side of the House, mixed with cheers from the Liberals.
   If Trudeau had announced an election it probably would have been for July 10.
   Most observers feel that a deep summer election, one later than July 10 is not probable. Trudeau did not specify but has said before that if he did not call a summer election, the people should look to the fall or next spring.
   His majority Liberal government was elected July 8, 1974, and can stay in office until next July. Elections every four years are traditional, however, and it is considered dangerous for a prime minister to wait the full five years before calling an election.
  The announcement ends speculation that began as early as last fall when it was reported that the prime minister was considering calling a snap vote. He is said to have pondered the idea, then rejected it despite urgings from some advisers and Liberal MPs.
   Since then an election this spring or summer had been considered almost a certainty. Trudeau himself started speculation several weeks ago and appeared on the verge of naming a date.
   He suddenly began to cool election talk and it was learned later that private Liberal polls showed his government might be in trouble with the voters.
   An April Gallup Poll, released early last week, showed Liberals and Progressive Conservatives tied with41 percent of the decided vote. The New Democrats had 14 and 39 per cent of the voters were undecided.
SALARY DISPUTE
Husky Oil talks last only hours
  by JAN-UDO WENZEL Citizen Staff Reporter
   Talks between Husky Oil Ltd. and the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union broke down Wednesday after three hours.
    The talks were the first to be held since the strike of 36 Prince George refinery workers started April 19. They were held under B.C. Labor Relations Board mediator Ken Al-bertini.
   Richard King, president of OCAW Local 9-817, said the talks broke down over a disagreement on wage premiums.
   The union is seeking retention of a 30-cent premium paid under the old contract to No. 1 operators.
   These operators were paid the extra money for shifts worked between 4 p.m. and 8 a.m. and for all hours worked on statutory holidays as well as on Saturdays and Sundays.
  The company wants to abolish this premium.
   OCAW international representative Buck Philp said he was not surprised by the company’s attitude and he called the firm’s stand “hard-nosed.”
   He charged that Husky’s industrial relations policy is antiquated.
   king stated that during the talks Husky retained its offer of a settlement, which would pay a top operator 34 cents less an hour than other refinery workers in B.C.
   There is no indication when talks will resume and Albertini left Prince George Wednesday after the three-hour meeting.
   But Husky Oil suffered a setback in its position when the B.C. Railway agreed Tuesday night not to purchase any Husky products.
   The BCR's purchase of several cars of diesel fuel and the hauling of it from the refinery with management personnel resulted in a one-day walk-out by BCR employees from North Vancouver to Fort Nelson.
   The Joint Council of Railway Unions demanded the railway cease to buy Husky products before agreeing to go back to work.
   And while the council was bargaining for a return to work, it reached an agreement with the railway on several other points.
  BCR spokesman Hugh Armstrong said the company agreed to reduce demerit points for a number of employees who walked off the job during a study session in mid-April.
   Railway employees collect dermits for infractions of regulations and when the number reaches 60 points there is a possibility of dismissal.
   Both sides agreed to work for improvement irt all-over labor relations and no disciplinary action will be taken against men returning to work after Tuesday’s walkout.
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   The forecast for Prince George today is for mainly cloudy skies with isolated showers and a chance of thunder showers. Friday is expected to be mainly sunny with some cloudy periods and showers.
   The expected high today is 13, the low 0. The high Wednesday was 15, the low 4, with no precipitation. On this date last year the high was 15, the low 5.
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 4 Looking over a city property tax report, city council man George Gibbins commented that the item under “number four" had caught his eye. The item showed $182 in city taxes paid in 1977 compared with $3,192 for 1978 for a '61-acre suburban parcel of land. “What caught your' eye?” asked city manager Chester Jeffery, ‘‘The extremely low tax paid in 1977?”
FLIGHT CANCELLED
Airport accident
   A parking brake failure on an NT Air Twin Otter caused it to collide with a parked 727 CP Air jet at the airport today.
   NT Air manager Jack Stel-fox said the Otter was sitting in the loading area with its engines running at 6:20 a.m. when an electrical or hydraulic malfunction of the brakes caused it to move forward, striking the 727.
   The Otter had just loaded passengers for a flight to Kamloops.
   The de-icing mechanism on the right wing of the Otter received minor damage, and the flight had to be cancelled.
   CP Air’s 7:20 a.m. flight to Vancouver was delayed three hours while mechanics repaired minor damage to the 727’s nose cone.
Cltixen photo by Doug Wrllrr
Marilyn Loelke demonstrates problems mothers have in stores.
BABY BUGGY BLUES
Malls not built for moms
  by BEV CHRISTENSEN Citizen Family Editor
   An angry local mother charges that because she must shop with a baby buggy she is excluded from some stores and handicapped in her efforts to shop in others.
    Marilyn Loelke of 3194 Os-pika Blvd. became angry enough to speak out on the subject after she’d spent a frustrating afternoon trying to shop in the Pine Centre Mall recently with her two children Christopher, three months, and Jason, 2. Her complaints are shared by most young city parents, judging by a survey of five other mothers, all of whom agreed with Loelke.
    Loelke says her problem is an example of how our society, which says it honors mothers, ignores their needs when building supermarkets, public buildings and the streets they must use to get anywhere.
   “Because of the size of buggy I use to hold both children I can’t get into some stores and I can’t get down the aisles of others,” she said.
    “The thing that finally made me mad enough to speak out was when I was in the Pine Centre Mall and I wanted to take Jason to the bathroom.
   “The closest bathroom was in Woolco but I couldn’t get the buggy through the bars blocking the entrance from the mall.”
    She could either leave the
 baby unattended in the buggy in the mall while taking Jason to the bathroom or take both children to another bathroom near the centre of the mall. Because she chose the latter course her young son had an accident and she abaonded her shopping trip and, angry and upset by the incident pushed the buggy a mile and a half home again.
   Shopping malls are only part of the problem for young mothers.
   “To get to the Pine Centre Mall I have to push my buggy out on the street where I get splashed by passing cars and trucks or which are dangerous in winter,” she said.
   “When I do get to a place where there are sidewalks there are no approach ramps so I have to lift the buggy up and down off the curbs - and there are a lot of curbs between here and the Pine Centre,” she said.
   She thinks day nurseries in large shopping centres would be one answer to the problem.
   Pine Centre manager, Sid Winsby, said day nurseries had been tried at other shopping centres in North America but it had been found the service was often abused when mothers used it as a form of day care for activities other than shopping in the mall. There were also problems with finding suitable space, close enough to be convenient for
 mothers and isolated enough where noise wasn’t a problem to shoppers, he said.
   WoqIco received the brunt of the criticism from Loelke because mothers with buggies can enter that store only through the entrance from the parking lot. Once in the store they cannot leave the store except via the automatic door which is meant for customers coming into the store. Barriers narrowing the exits from Woolco prevent them going from the store into the mall or out the exit onto the pa rking lot.
   Keith Elliott, a public relations spokesman for Woolco’s Toronto office, said he was not aware mothers were experiencing difficulty shopping in the store here. He said there were buggies in the store but Loelke said there were not enough and she couldn’t always find one.
   Elliott said the barricades were there to keep the store’s buggies in the store ‘‘...because of the problems we have experienced with carts leaving our premises and being used by teenagers to race in the mall and out on the lot damaging cars and customers.”
   Loelke says smaller stores have aisles which are too narrow for her buggy and each major department store presents obstacles to mothers shopping with young children in a buggy or stroller.
   She gave MacLeods Family
 Shopping Centre top marks as the best store in which to shop with young children because it had a good supply of buggies on both levels and a reasonably easy entrance into the store.
   Parkwood Mall is “pretty good’ because she can reach the main floor easily but can’t take the buggy up the escalator and must ask a store employee to take her with her buggy to the second floor.
   Spruceland Shopping Centre received low marks because ol the inconvenience of getting a buggy in and out of the stores, many of which have narrow aisles and don’t provide buggies.
   She criticized The Bay because one entrance has two stiff doors and the other has two doors and a flight of stairs. Once inside the store there are no buggies and the only way to get to the second floor where the women’s clothing and children’s wear are sold is by bumping the carriage up a flight of stairs, through a set of doors and wheeling it up the ramp on the parking lot.
   Jim Roy, who has managed The Bay here for one week, said he was not aware of the problem but it is difficult to modify older stores. He confirmed there was no passenger elevator in the store but said store employees would be willing to assist customers experiencing problems moving around the store.
BITTER FEELINGS
Moro family bars gov't
   ROME (Reuter) — Bitter relatives of murdered expremier Aldo Moro locked the Italian government out of his funeral Wednesday.
   Complying with Moro’s own wishes, written during the 54 days he was held captive by Red Brigades guerrillas who kidnapped and killed him, the family refused to allow authorities to give him a state funeral.
   Instead, he was buried in a small country village north of Rome. The funeral coincided with the resignation of Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga who took personal blame for the police failure to rescue Moro.
   Former prime minister Amintore Fanfani, who dashed to the funeral from Parliament univited, was too late for the service and had the gates of the cemetry locked in his face.
   Moro's wife, Eleonora, in giving the Christian Democratic Party leader the simple funeral he wanted, invited none of his friends in politics to it.
   Villagers carried the coffin and only her children, his two brothers and his political secretaries were at the graveside.
   As the simple white oak coffin was buried in the family tomb of a friend, Interior Minister Cossiga resigned, saying: ‘‘It is my duty * to assume full responsibility for the operations of the forces I control.”
   Cossiga, who hinted that new tough anti-terrorist laws might be needed to deal with the Brigades, had resigned in the clear expectation of an avalanche of criticism of police handling of the search for Moro, informed sources said.
   Some 70,000 Romans attended a rally Wednesday outside the city centre church where the government, against the family’s wishes, will hold a state funeral service on Saturday.
   In Parliament, politicians of every party made emotional eulogies on Moro.
   Prime Minister Andreotti, urging Italy to remember the ideology of peace and mediation always preached by Moro, said: “No one can destroy our human values of understanding and harmony.”
   But urban guerrillas, determined to maintain the impetus the Moro kidnapping and killing has given them, reminded everyone of the threat they pose by shooting an executive of the state chemical corporation M ontedison in the legs as he was leaving home for work in Milan.
   The style of Wednesday night’s funeral was dictated by Moro himself. In one despairing letter from the Brigades’ hideout, he said bluntly: “I request that no member of the state or my party take part in my funeral.”
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