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Putting on the dog, Bobwin Shaydatan Warmaster, an American cocker spaniel, gets beauty treatment from owner Becky Nault today at Prince George’s Exhibition Grounds Sports Centre. “Tank,” as he’s known for short, is one of 300 entries in the Northern Interior Kennel Club’show, which continues this weekend.
ALASKA HIGHWAY JOBS
Canadians get priority
OTTAWA (CP) - Tenders are to be called next week in Canada and the United States for the initial stages of construction on about 500 kilometres of the Alaska Highway and the Haines Highway in the Yukon and northwestern British Columbia, it was announced Thursday.
The multi-million dollar pro-1 ject to rebuild and pave stretches of the dirt-and-gravel Canadian sections of the international highway is to be paid for by the U.S. at an estimated cost of $200 million.
However, under terms of a 1976 Canada-U.S. agreement, 90 per cent of the labor force is to be reserved for Canadians. A public works department news release said that up to 6,000 Canadian jobs would be created over the life of the project, scheduled for completion in the mid-1980’s.
Tenders for grading a 48-kilometre stretch running north and south of Haines Junction, Yukon are to be awarded by about mid-August and work is to begin immediately, the news release said.
The long-planned program, named the Shakwak Project, has taken on more urgency with the agreement last year to build a pipeline along the Alaska Highway route to carry
Alaskan natural gas to southern markets.
A number of grading contracts are to be let out before paving begins and Yukon residents are to be given preference for the Canadian jobs, the department says.
Work will begin formally Aug. 15 at Haines Junction, the Yukon centre where the Haines Highway, running north from Haines in the Alaska Panhandle, joins the Alaska Highway.'
U.S. and Canadian contractors are eligible to bid on the contracts.
A special provision allows successful U.S. contractors to bring in supervisory personnel
to oversee construction in Canada.
Of the 514-kilometre stretch, about 80 kilometres of the highway will be improved in the northwestern tip of B.C. between the Alaskan and Yukon borders.
The province has agreed to provide a right-of-way on its Crown land as well the use of natural construction materials within its boundaries, the news release said. ,
A similar announcement was made in Washington where U.S. transportation secretary Brock Adams said bids would be received for the project at Vancouver.
U.S. mail pact reached
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States was spared the snarl of a mail strike today when marathon bargaining produced a tentative new threeyear contract for postal workers.
The new accord insures continued job security for more than 500,000 employees who will also keep their cost-of-living allowances.
Those were the two demands over which union leaders had said their rank-and-file would be willing to go on strike.
The new pact provides for a
two-per-cent general wage increase in the first year, three per cent in the second and five per cent in the final year, said Emmet Andrews, president of the American Postal Workers Union.
Average wages now are $15,887.
The unions had sought a 2(T-per-cent increase in a two-year contract, but sources said throughout the negotiations wages were not the prime issue.
Andrews estimated the new
agreement, including cost-of-living projections, would provide roughly 19.5 per cent more in wages during its three-year life.
President Carter had called for a ceiling of 5.5 per cent on federal wage increases.
Agreement was reached at mid-day Thursday on no-layoff and cost-of-living issues.
In return, the unions agreed to the three-year pact management had wanted, rather than a two-year contract the unions had sought.
CBC CONTRACT ACCORD
Games' coverage threat fades
OTTAWA (CP) - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and negotiators for its 3,000 technicians reached agreement in principle just before midnight Thursday to a two-year contract that would avert disruption of Commonwealth Games coverage.
A CBC spokesman said the tentative contract still has to be approved by the membership of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, without a contract since July 2.
Details of the contract would not be made public until they were approved, he said.
The spokesman said the terms were far from the original starting point of the two groups. The Crown corporation was
offering a six-per-cent wage increase in a one-year contract with the union seeking a two-year agreement ranging from nine to 12 per cent in the first year and four per cent in the second along with a cost-of-living clause.
The announcement follows several days of hard bargaining that started Sunday under pressure from several directions for the federal government to step in and enforce a settlement to preserve domestic and international coverage of the Commonwealth Games, scheduled for Edmonton Aug. 3-12.
Members of the union are television cameramen, lighting and sound technicians, wiremen, general radio and television technicians'and supervising technicians.
Lou Hyndman, Alberta intergovernmental affairs minister, at one point asked federal Labor Minister John Munro to intervene directly in the negotiations, especially after federal concilliation attempts failed.
But corporation president A1 Johnson rejected this, saying the corporation and its workers could work out their own problems and Munro kept his distance.
The last contract was signed under similar pressure with the future of Olympic Games broadcasting in question in 1976.
As with the Olympics, the CBC will provide basic radio and television coverage of the Commonwealth Games for the countries involved.
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Friday, July 21,1978‘ Vol. 22; No. 142 . Prince George, British Columbia
LONG-RANGE PLANNING
Hospital size limit opposed in report
Trudeau
visits
Morocco
OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Trudeau left West Germany today for a brief vacation in Morocco.
Trudeau was flying by military aircraft to Paris where he was to catch a commercial flight to Morocco for a holiday of 10 days to two weeks, aides 'said.
The prime minister was accompanied by RCMP security officers. Aides kept his vacation desination secret for several hours after Trudeau jokingly said they could reveal his whereabouts “when I’m no longer hijackable.”
See also page 6
by JOHN ASLING Citizen Staff Reporter
Prince George’s hospital trustees have been told to ignore Victoria’s direction on limiting the size of the local hospital.
The advice comes from the hospital’s long-range planning committee, which tabled its 13 recommendatipns Thursday after a year of deliberation.
While Health Minister Bob McClelland has stated the hospital should limit its size to 500 beds, the committee calls for 600 beds by 1990.
Currently, the hospital has 362 beds.
Bob Martin, chairman of the committee which is now automatically dissolved, said, “I think the great danger in this is to limit the size of the hospital.”
If a new hospital is built in another area of the city as soon as the 500 bed-limit is hit, Martin says it could be left “dangling” in a no-growth area.
Since the hospital is in a central position, he said it would eliminate this problem. And Martin said also the committee found no evidence that a 500-bed hospital could be operated more efficiently than a larger one.
He said he didn’t feel the approach would upset the health minister. “We felt the 500-bed limit was more related to the problems they’re having in the Lower Mainland.
“The minister will look at a
well-researched approach,” the committee chairman said.
The committee’s recommendations were received by the board but each suggestion will have to be dealt with separately as it comes up before the board again before being implemented as policy.
“The committee’s felt the availability of property would determine the eventual size of the hospital,” Martin concluded.
In proposing a hospital of at least 600 beds, the committee threw out the idea of building another hospital in Prince George for at least 20 years.
But in order to meet future needs, the committee has suggested a number of specialty pavilions be built at once. This idea, according to administrator Bert Boyd, a member of the committee, will mean a greater integration of health services.
The suggested establishment of a health-care committee to discuss needs of the hospital’s referral area was greeted as a major innovation by board chairman Ed Barnes.
“There’s a lot in just meeting together,” added Martin.
The committee suggested a number of short-term measures including the establishment of an ombudsman in order to make the hospital more “humanistic.”
U.K. sets wage hike guidelines
LONDON (AP) - Britain’s Labor government announced guidelines today that would limit wage increases for the next year to five per cent of existing pay.
The figure is half the amount approved a year ago for pay negotiations in the period now ending.
Denis Healey, chancellor of the exchequer, told the House of Commons that with wages now averaging £80 ($160) a week, the new five-per-cent limit would hold increases to i?4 ($8) a week.
He said previous pay curbs had cut inflation to 7.4 per cent, well under half the average for a year ago.
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RESPONDING TO PUBLIC PRESSURE
Courts 'quit coddling' youthful offenders
MONTREAL (CP) - United States courts are sending more and more juvenile delinquents to prison instead of trying to rehabilitate them, Judge James Byers of Wisconsin said Thursday.
Courts across the U.S. are responding to public pressure to “quit coddling” youths who commit crimes, said Judge Byers, who heads the American delegation to the 10th congress of the International Association of Youth Magistrates.
“There’s no question about it-the pendulum is swinging away from treatment toward a more punishing approach,” Judge Byers told a reporter.
“There seems to be a feeling on the part of professionals as well as the
public at large that rehabilitation has not worked. They are telling us to confine the offenders for the sake of confinement alone, to keep them out of the community.”
The American juvenile legal system is widely viewed at the congress here as the system which establishes the pattern that most countries eventually follow.
Canada’s proposed Youth Offenders Act, for example, is II years behind the U.S. in offering youths the same legal rights as adults, such as the right to retain a lawyer.
Judge Byers said the public push for more severity has been building during the last several years, as minors commit a greater number of violent crimes in the U.S. f
“The traditional juvenile offenses were joy-riding in someone’s car or buglaries of businesses like a gas station or an empty warehouse,” he said.
. - “Now they are burglarizing homes and committing violent crimes like stabbings, assault on the street or armed robbery. We didn’t, experience these kinds of crimes to any great degree up until the last few .years.”
Fifty per cent’of the crimes committed in the U.S. are now done by juveniles, Judge Byers said. “I don’t know how many they committed in earlier years but it was a lot less than that.”
Judge Byers, who presides over both juvenile and adult criminal
courts in Wisconsin, said that 95 per cent of the criminal cases he sees involve offenders aged 14 to 24.
Judge Byers and the organization he heads, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, are opposed to the new trend away from rehabilitation.
“What the public doesn’t seem to realize is that children often need a long-range program to treat their problems,” Judge Beyers said.
“What appears to the public to be coddling children may be necessary for their rehabilitation.”
Judge Byers said he thinks the main reason for the upswing in juvenile crime is the breakdown of the family. “The kids need some attention and they don’t know how else to get it.”
VICTORIA (CP) - The dispute between the British Columbia Ferry Corp. and the union representing workers on the fleet over a short work stoppage earlier this week flared up again today in the wake of disciplinary action against 26 union members.
The B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers Union filed two complaints with the B.C. Labor Relations Board in Vancouver as a result of the action.
The Crown-owned corporation sent the union a toughly-worded telegram saying it is “extremely disturbed” by the union’s position in the controversy.
The Victoria Colonist says one unidentified union spokesman said Thursday that job action is planned as a result of i the disciplinary action.
The controversy centres on a work stoppage Monday by 32 union members at the Horseshoe Bay terminal of the ferry system during which passengers were left waiting for up to four hours.
Union shop steward Bob Peacock said the walkout was to protest months of frustration with management over staffing and safety issues, and management’s disregard for workers’ complaints.
TODAY
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Arrested as impaired: ....15
This year:
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FEATURED INSIDeJ
Summer wine . . .
If you’ve joined the ranks of the frustrated beer drinkers searching the wine counters for something to quench your thirst, turn to page 18 for some simple clues to following in making your selection.
Amateur hockey probe
A major probe of Canadian amateur hockey has been announced by Fitness and Amateur Sport Minister Iona Campagnolo. Page 7.
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THE WEATHER
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The forecast for Prince George today and during the weekend is for sunny skies and warm temperatures with widely scattered thunder showers.
The forecast high today and Saturday is 29. The expected low today is 7.
The high Thursday was 29, the low 7, with no precip-tation. On this date last year the high was 19, the low 11.
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% A bumper sticker saying ‘Save The Whales Boycott Japanese Products’ was seen’on the back of a Datsun.
gilt was an expensive bottle of beer for a young Prince! George man. He was found drinking it in Fort George Park and when pplice approached he heaved the bottle into the' bushes. The result was a charge of littering, for which a judge this morning fined hini $50.
#Yep, it’s back. A resident reports seeing the first Pacific Gold beer cases laying by the side of the road yesterday afternoon. 4