Enjoying
the heat
Here comes the sun and with it the sun-worshippers. Hundreds of people took advantage of Sunday’s record high of 28 to enjoy sun-tanning and swimming at Bear Lake, about 65 km north of Prince George. The temperature beat the previous record high of 26 set on that date in 1961. Record highs were also set in 12 other B.C. communities during the weekend.
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CANADA-U.S. DISPUTE
Fishboats run for home
VANCOUVER (CP) -Canadian and American fishboats were racing for West Coast home waters, today to beat the end of a grace period granted by both siaes in the latest fisn dispute.
Fishermen of both countries had to officially be out of the other side’s waters by noon Saturday. The grace period, however, extended that deadline to noon today.
Counts on both sides showed about 40 United States fishboats still in Canadian waters Sunday and about 40 Canadian boats near U.S. waters off Washington state when the U.S. prohibition was broadcast on marine channels. Patrol vessels reported no incidents.
“Only a fool would risk getting his boat tied up,” said Dick Crouter, West Coast director of field operations for the federal fisheries service. “No fisherman is going to challenge international law.”
U.S. authorities banned Canadian fishermen after Canadian authorities Friday imposed the ban on Americans.
The ban—imposed by Canadian authorities when treaty negotiations between the two countries broke down-led to confusion among sports fishermen who were not affected in the initial order by the Canadians.
U.S. Coast Guard spokesmen warned Canadian sport fishermen to keep out of U.S. waters unless fishing out of boats registered in the U.S. Marinas in Puget Sound, however were reported still selling
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They watched him drown . . .
MONTREAL (CP) - About a dozen people watched a seven-year-old boy drown Saturday and refused to jump into the Riviere des Prairies to save him, some saying the water was too polluted.
Police said Martin Turgeon of Montreal slipped off a wharf near a spot where untreated sewage is dumped into the river.
“We’re not going in there— the water is much too dirty,” witnesses quoted one onlooker as saying.
Some people even left the scene as the boy’s father, a non-swimmer, thrashed about in the water and screamed for help.
A boater fished the boy’s body out of the river about 25 minutes later.
The
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Monday, June 5,1978
Vol. 22; No. 108 ' Prince George. British Columbia
BREWERY SHUTDOWN LOOMS
Beer still flowing here
by JAN-UDO WENZEL Citizen Staff Reporter
There is still beer in Prince George both at the government liquor stores and in hotels in spite of a pending shut-down of the beer industry.
“We can still last for a couple of days and hope to get another delivery before any lockout or strike becomes effective,” the manager of one of the liquor stores said.
The situation is somewhat different from that in the Lower Mainland, where liquor stores ran out of beer by Saturday in the face of labor disputes at the breweries.
The brewery and Soft Drink Workers Union has been on strike against Carling-O’Keefe for two weeks and the newly-formed Brewery Employers Labor Relations Association served a 72-hour lockout notice for all other breweries Saturday. The lockout would become effective Tuesday.
The association is made up of Carling-O’Keefe, Molson’s, Labatt’s and Columbia Brewing Co.
The Carling employees have been without a contract since Dec. 31 and the others since April 20.
Association officials met for five hours Sunday, but failed to reach the union for talks.
Union official John Langley said the association is not in a legal position to lock the employees out because he has not been contacted as required under law.
There has not been a run on beer stocks so far in Prince George and hotels and other outlets are still serving beer.
Hotels still have a good stbek of bottled beer, while draught beer may be available only for another couple of days should no further deliveries be made.
At the National Hotel, owner Al Thun said he has bottled beer for about one and a half months. At the Simon Fraser Inn the bottled-beer supply will also last for “a while”.
But in Vancouver liquor stores were emptied of beer Saturday as rising temperatures increased the demand.
Hotels were also short and discontinued off:premises sales. This measure has also been adopted by Prince George hotels. Operators said they have stopped selling take-out beer to ensure their supply lasts a little longer.
Several hotel operators stated they were behind the association's effort to bring the contracts for all breweries into line.
“Each of these contracts ex-
LAWN SPRINKLING
Restrictions set
Lawn sprinkling restrictions will go into effect this week; but the city would like residents to start conserving now.
City engineer Ernie Obst said the hot weather has created heavy demands on the city water system and he is asking all residents to “sprinkle with discretion.”
He said, “We have had reports of people sprinkling all day and all night. That’s an ineffective way to sprinkle and a waste of water.”
Obst asked that residents use the water carefully and do not oversprinkle. He said morning and evening are the best times to sprinkle.
Restrictions should be in effect this week, possibly as early as Tuesday.
TV ads 'insulting'
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OTTAWA (CP) - Most Canadians consider advertisements an insult to their intelligence, want at least one commercial-free television channel and think present procedures for policing truth in advertising are inadequate.
The public also does not admit to being influenced by ads. Those are some of the findings of a major survey by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) about television, TV advertising and advertising in general.
Other findings were: —That Canadians generally think TV is a good source of relaxation, entertainment, companionship and relief from boredom, but think heavy TV viewing can have negative social effects such as “limiting family conversation.”
—About 50 per cent of the 3,060 Canadians surveyed said
they would be willing to pay for good advertisement-free TV programs, while 37 per cent thought there should be no ads on TV.
—There is a general distrust of the information presented through advertising and the public has a lack of faith in present procedures for policing advertising truthfulness.
—The public finds the frequency and repetitiveness of commercials annoying.
“Also cited as irritating are the insulting tone of commercials and the use of celebrities in selling products,” the release said.
As well, Canadians prefer advertising to be factual and presented in an entertaining way, and consider ads now to be insulting to their intelligence, the survey found.
The public is also annoyed at ads interrupting TV programs and would prefer them to be
grouped at the beginning or end of shows.
While most Canadians do not admit to being influenced by advertising, they think it increases spending on useless commodities, the CRTC said. They also look to advertising for information about new products.
The majority also believes advertising boosts product prices, but is necessary to the economy or for paying for TV programming.
However, opinion is split as to whether the quality of TV shows is improved where advertising is present.
A CRTC spokesman said the survey was conducted because the commission was concerned about the effects of TV advertising and public attitudes toward it.
No specific changes in CRTC rules are being planned as a result of the survey.
buying
baby's
life'
by BEV CHRISTENSEN
Citizen Family Editor
Local Babies’ Ransom Fund officials are not concerned about an announcement Friday that the provincial government will change the Adoption Act to prevent the sale of babies.
Louis Matte, a director of the local fund which offers to provide financial assistance and counselling to pregnant women, said the proposed changes to the Adoption Act do not apply to the Babies’ Ransom Fund because it does not interfere with the mothers’ decision whether to have their babies adopted. It seeks only to prevent abortions.
“We are buying the baby’s life; we are not saying the mother has to put the baby up for adoption,” Matte said.
He was commenting on an announcement by John Noble, deputy human resources minister, that the B.C. government intends to introduce changes to the Adoption Act to prevent the development of a baby market. Such a trend would circumvent the orderly adoption of children through the department of human resources, Noble said.
Matte said his group has found most of the pregnant women who contact his group are looking for financial assistance and a place to live during the final months of pregnancy.
"We try to find them a home then refer them to the department of human resources for financial assistance,” Matte said.
The proposed changes are a result of ads placed in newspapers by a Vancouver lawyer Joel Kerbel.
Former attomey-General Alex Macdonald complained about the ads-
Betty Green, chairman of the B.C. Pro-Life Society, an anti-abortion organization, said a shortage of babies available for adoption makes the province vulnerable to a black market in babies.
Peter Hoogstraten, regional director of the department of human resources, confirmed there is a shortage of healthy, white, newborn babies available for adoption here.
"There is always a need for people who will consider adopting an older child or one who is handicapped or family groups of children,” he said.
The reasons there are fewer babies available for adoption include better birth control methods, more young adults in the age group where they would wish to have children, the fact that more unmarried mothers are deciding to keep their babies and the increase in the number of abortions performed.
Bruce Parker rolls to record
He got his share of ups and downs
Special to The Citizen
VANCOUVER — Bruce Parker of Prince George, had trouble walking Saturday after setting a record at Playland of 351 consecutive rides on the rollercoaster.
The 21-year-old apprentice meatcutter wasn’t sure whether his 15-hour marathon ride had set a world record.
His diet during the ride was half a grapefruit, a handful of grapes and a couple of glasses of water.
Parker had a number of sponsors and raised about $3,000 for the Canadian Paraplegic Association.
He also said he would do it again if his record here is broken. The previous Playland rollercoast mark was 225 continuous rides.
Fire hazard 'high'
Provincial forest service officials here report 15 new fires in the Prince George district during the weekend; eight are still burning.
The forest fire hazard is reported as high.
Tom Waller, a spokesman with the forest service, said today about 200 acres were lost during the weekend to fire.
About 60 firefighters and three bulldozers are currently controlling all the fires burning today.
In addition, fire bombers were called out to six fires in
BULLETIN
ROME (Reuter) — The owner of a printing shop and five other suspected urban guerrillas have been charged with complicity in the kidnapping and murder of former Italian premier Aldo Moro, justice officials said today.
The six are the first persons to be formally charged in connection with the murder of Moro, whose bullet-riddled body was dumped by Red Brigades urban guerrillas in central Rome May 9 after 54 days of captivity.
the district including one of 35 acres near Valemount and one of 50 acres near Mackenzie.
Weather reports indicate a continued drying trend with the chance of lightning Tuesday in some areas of the Prince George forest district.
The district stretches from Endako on the west to the Alberta border and from the Yukon border to Prince George and Valemount in the south.
Jail damaged; inmates charged
Four inmates of the Prince George Regional Corrections Centre were to appear in provincial court today charged with malicious damage stemming from an incident in the jail Friday evening.
Centre director Barry Raf-use said the four had been placed in segregation when they pulled the toilet off the wall and flooded the cell. Later, when they were lodged in other individual cells, they broke light fixtures and ceiling tiles. Rafuse said damage exceeded $200.
They were taken to RCMP downtown to await court appearance.
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The forecast for Prince George today and Tuesday is for sunny skies with some cloudy periods and warm temperatures.
The forecast high for today is 27, the low 8. The high Sunday was a record 28, which beat the previous record high of 26, set on that date in 1961. There was no precipitation Sunday. On this date last year the high was 22, the low, 5.
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• Here’s a fish story: Members of the Polar Coachman Fly Fishing Club had an entry in their weekend fishing derby even before they reached Opatcho Lake. One member caught a two-pound rainbow trout by hand — from the middle of the road leading to the lake. Apparently, a spawning stream that is supposed to run under the road was blocked and the fish tried to make it across some puddles. The club saved the determined fish by transporting it by bucket to the lake.
9 It’s here; it’s there; it's everywhere. There’s hardly anywhere you can’t buy a Loto Canada raffle ticket. The latest place where opportunity has knocked for the sale of Loto tickets is Prince George airport where a kiosk has been set up to waylay air travellers. But it wasn’t easy, according to district Loto Canada agent Dot McCuish. In order to meet Ministry of Transport standards, an architect had to be commissioned to design the stall and a major city contractor hired to put it together. Ah well, it’s all in the name of fitness and amateur sport, don’t forget.
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