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Tiny Pitts stunt planes of the Canadian Red aerobatic team thrilled crowds at Vanderhoof’s Air Show Sunday. The pair from Ladner did a series of fly-bys, loops, figure eight loops in formation. The airshow also featured sky-diving Saturday and
Sunday, exhibitions of short take-offs and landings by a Canadian Forces Buffalo aircraft, glider flights, and aircraft rides for spectators.
 Citizen photo by Tim Swanky
TWO U.S. CENTRES
Riots rip prisons
           by Associated Press Georgia state prison was tense but under control today. Clothing and trash littered the prison yard at the Pontiac Correctional Centre in Illinois. It was the aftermath of frenzied weekend riots at both facilities that left four guards and two prisoners dead.
  The southeastern Georgia prison in Reidsville, beset by racial troubles and over-crowding, has suffered recent outbreaks in which two prisoners were killed and about 30 others injured.
   On July 5, U.S. District Judge Anthony Alaimo of Brunswick ordered prisoners segregated by race to relieve racial tensions.
   When asked whether Sunday’s disturbance was racially motivated, a prison spokesman Sara Passmore said there were not enough facts to determine the cause.
   But, she added, since the riot broke out simultaneously in two wings, “it’s apparent it was planned.”
   The violence erupted at 4 p.m. as prisoners in two adjacent wings were being escorted to dinner.
   Mrs. Passmore said a group of black convicts overpowered four guards — three white and one black. The three victims and another guard who was seriously injured were white.
   After taking the guards hostage, prisoners set fire to bedding and unlocked dormitory doors with keys taken from the officers, Mrs. Passmore said.
   Guard Dan Harrison was found stabbed to death. Guard Preston Foskey, 32, was taken to Tattnall memorial hospital with at least 10 stab wounds in the neck, head, chest and arms and a collapsed lung. Foskey was reported in serious but stable condition early today.
   The other two hostages were unharmed, Mrs. Passmore said.
   The body of one slain prisoner was found in a hallway of one wing shortly after the rioters were subdued, she said. The other was found at the rear of a dormitory in the other wing an hour later.
   Prisoners’ names were withheld pending notification of families.
CANADIAN INCIDENTS
Long sentences blamed
  MONTREAL (CP) -Some of the violent escapes and hostage-taking incidents in Canadian penitentiaries in recent years may be partly attributable to the abolition of capital punishment and the imposition of
 longer sentences, say people connected with prisons and prisoners.
   Legislation adopted two years ago officially abolished the death penalty and replaced it with a mandatory 25-year prison term
 Hostages freed
  STE. ANNE-DES-PLAINES, Que. (CP) - A hostage-taking incident at the maximum-security Archambault Institute ended peacefully early Sunday after 70 hours when two convicted murderers released four prison school instructors unharmed.
   The prisoners, Maurice Paquette and Serge Roberge, obtained only minor concessions in a 10-point agreement as penitentiary service officials adhered as closely as possible to Ottawa’s policy of no deals with hostage-takers in federal penitentiaries, prison officials said.
   Laval Marchand, assistant prison director, said the hostage-taking may have been “a means of publicizing their grievances” rather than a serious attempt to obtain their initial demands for safe passage out of the prison.
   The incident started Thursday morning when Paquette and Roberge took an unarmed guard, five teachers and 19 prisoners hostage in a prison schoolroom. They first released the prisoners, then the guard and one teacher in what they termed a ‘“humanitarian” gesture.
   MONTREAL (CP) — Three prisoners serving time for robbery with violence escaped through a cell window at the federal medium-security Leclerc Institute in nearby Laval early today, a penitentiary spokesman said.
   The three—Jean Jalbert, 25, his brother Roch, 21, and Michel Drouin, 18-escaped by cutting through the barred window of a third-floor cell, said Jacques Dyotte, regional administrator with the federal penitentiary service.
  for people convicted of capital, or pre-meditated, murder.
   Those convicted of noncapital murder must serve 15 years behind bars.
    “Obviously, the long sentences have caused us some problems,” Jean Dyotte, Quebec regional penitentiary official, said Friday.
   “When an inmate knows he’s going to spend the next 25 years beind bars, he develops the attitude that he has nothing to lose. It can lead to hostage-taking incidents and desperate attempts at escape.”
    There are 9,600 prisoners in 43 different types of institutions across Canada, and last year there were 75 escapes from Canadian penitentiaries.
    Only five of those escapes were from maximum-security institutions, where the most dangerous criminals are housed. The great majority were from minimum-security institutions, where security is light for first-time and nonviolent offenders.
   Of the 75 escapes last year, 26, or about one-third, occurred in Quebec.
   So far this year, there have been 26 escapes across the country.
NAZKO VALLEY AREA
Fire 'out of control'
     by ELI SOPOW Citizen Staff Reporter A 200-acre fire 112 km west of Quesnel was raging out of control this morning as 50 fire fighters, three air-tankers and seven bulldozers fought to control the blaze.
   Russ Trenaman, a fire duty officer with the Prince George forest district, said the fire was caused by a lightning storm which swept the Cariboo and Prince George districts during the weekend.
  He said the Nazko fire, located in the Cariboo forest district, should be under control today and poses no danger to the Nazko Indian village about 64 km north of the blaze.
  The Nazko Valley is an important timber supply area for Quesnel sawmills.
   A continued drying trend has pushed the fire hazard to extreme in forests near Prince George, Hixon, Summit Lake, Fort St. James and Mackenzie.
   Trenaman said the hazard is high in the Peace River area of the Prince George forest district and low to moderate near McBride and Valemount, about 250 km east of here.
    He said 31 new fires occurred during the weekend in the Prince George district, bringing the total number burning to 41. All are under control.
   Although the forests are becoming dangerously dry from the heat, no early logging shifts or campfire bans have yet been instituted in the region.
   George Mackenzie, woods
Monday, July 24,1978
Vol. 22; No. 143
Prince George, British Columbia
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Citizen photo by Jean Witte
In the park
 Mother had better be at the bottom of the slide when three-year-old Daryl McManus of Prince George tries out park equipment. City parks are a popular place with youngsters during current hot spell.
Take our airport, 'hicks' tell Ottawa
 manager for Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd., one of the largest timber quota holders in the Prince George district, said today the only early morning shift his company has is near Houston, about 480 km west of here. Houston is in the Prince Rupert forest district where a campfire ban exists in all forest service recreation sites but not in provincial park camping and picnic grounds.
   While logging crews continue to work regular shifts in the Prince George area, about 4,000 loggers have been laid off in other areas of the province because of extreme forest fire hazards.
   The majority of the layoffs are in the southern coast area administered by the Vancouver forest district.
   CRANBROOK, B.C. (CP) -City council is annoyed with the Ministry of Transport and is prepared to turn over to M&T all responsibility for its airport, Cranbrook alderman Art Beresford said Sunday.
   Beresford said Cranbrook is being humiliated and left to face potential giant liability costs because Ottawa refuses to pay for an extra $10 million insurance.
  “If we don’t get any improvement in attitude and consideration for our point of view, if we’re still thought of as smalltown dummy hicks, then the feeling is MoT should take its bloody airport lock, stock and barrel, and bloody well run it themselves,’’ said Beresford.
   Mayor Ty G. Cogur is on holidays and was unavailable for comment.
   Cranbrook council moved last month to boost its liability insurance at the federally-financed airport to $20 million from $500,000 comprehensive coverage following the crash of a Pacific Western Airline jet Feb. 11 in which 43 people were killed.
   However MoT,' which normally pays insurance premiums and approves all expenditures, told Cranbrook council in a memo it would only
 pay for $10 million coverage.
   Beresford and city administrator Jim Lamb said Sunday MoT’s attitude leaves council with only two options: Cranbrook taxpayers could pay the extra premiums, which could be as much as $7,000 a year, or the city could demand that Ottawa take over all upkeep of the airport, now handled by the city.
Beer
promised
soon
  Prince George Breweries Ltd. will deliver all of its bottled beer production to local liquor stores instead of sending it out of town.
  Company president Bob Naismith said while the bottling line is not yet working at full capacity, it still produces several thousand dozen a day and he hopes that a sufficient beer supply will be on hand in Prince George this week.
   The brewery delivered 480 dozen'to one of the local liquor stores Friday and they were sold in 17 minutes.
   “We hope the situation will level out so that everybody has a chance to get some of the beer,” Naismith said.
WEST BANK CONTROL
Compromise deal hinted in Mideast
  JERUSALEM (AP) -Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan told parliament today that Israel was prepared to discuss the question of the ultimate sovereignty for the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip.
   Israel also was willing to discuss a territorial compromise “if a concrete proposal is submitted,” Dayan told the Knesset as he opened a debate on the Mideast situation.
   The cabinet on Sunday rejected President Anwar Sadat’s proposal that Israel return two areas of the Sinai Desert to Egypt as a goodwill gesture, but said it was willing to negotiate a trade for the northern coastal town of El Arish and Mount Sinai.
   “Nobody can get something for nothing, and this will be the policy of Israel,” Prime Minister Menachem Begin told reporters after the cabinet meeting. “No unilateral step is feasible by any country.”
   Dayan gave a 45-minute report on his meeting last week in Leeds Castle, England, with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel and U.S. State Secretary Cyrus Vance.
   He said the question of future sovereignty in the West Bank and Gaza is “the central gap between the Arab attitude and ours.”
   Israel’s peace plan offers the Palestinian Arabs in the two occupied territories administrative autonomy, or limited self-rule, with continued presence of the Israeli army in these areas captured in the 1967 Mideast war.
   “If Israel’s proposal of administrative autonomy is accepted,” Dayan said, “Israel is prepared... to discuss after five years the question of the sovereignty over Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip.” Judea and Samaria are the biblical names for the West Bank.
   Egypt demands the return of these lands to Arab sovereignty and the withdrawal of Israeli troops to the pre-1967 borders “with minor rectifications,” Dayan said.
   Although Israel was willing to discuss a territorial compromise, Dayan said he had asked the Egyptian delegation at Leeds Castle if Egypt would agree to a compromise and they replied, “on no account, of course not.”
   Dayan said there was some common ground between the Israeli and Egyptian peace proposals but it was outweighed by differences.
BULLETIN
  ^CAIRO (Reuter) — Twen-ty-four persons were killed and 15 injured today when an apartment building collapsed in the Egyptian capital’s Sharabeya district, police, ■aid.
TODAY
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Seniors' golf tourney
    Salmon Arm golfer Ken Reid continues to “own” the Prince George seniors’ golf tournament. Page 8.
Miss
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    The Miss Universe contest is on tonight. Our entry, Andrea Leslie Eng will compete against the most beautiful women in the world in the competition which will be televised on Channel 7 beginning at 9 p.m.
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   The forecast for Prince George today and Tuesday is for sunny skies and warm temperatures.
   The expected high today is 26, the low 10. Tuesday’s forecast high is 28.
   The high Sunday was 28, the low 12, with no precipitation. On this date last year the high was 24, the low 4.
( NOW HEAR THIS-)
  • A dozen is a dozen and will stay that way, says the B.C. Metric Conversion Office. The office branded as a hoax a bulletin circulating through B.C. that claims that after September 1 a dozen will contain 10 items. The phoney bulletin also claims that beer and eggs would have to be sold in packs of five and 10.