MAN SURVIVES ORDEAL IN ARCTIC
Seven grizzlies ring camp of rescued canoeist
 TUKTOYAKTUK, N.W.T (CP) - An Arctic canoeist from Whitehorse, stranded for 12 days and presumed dead by RCMP since Sunday, had survived a 15-minute immersion in Arctic water and was surrounded by seven grizzly bears when found alive and well by two friends and an Innit guide Wednesday.
 Tuktoyaktuk Dr. Herbert Schwarz and the canoeist, Jacques Moreau, say the RCMP conducted an inadequate search without calling on expert Inuit guides in the area for help.
 When found, Moreau’s camp was surrounded by seven grizzly bears. Me had survived a 15minute immersion in Arctic water, an attack by a grizzly bear and had hiked about 150 kilometres in 11 days, eating nothing but rice until he killed a caribou the day before he was found.
  Moreau’s canoe had floundered against ice floes on the high Arctic coast Aug. 12. The empty canoe was found Aug.
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Friends Bill Preston and Terry McCrory, both of Whitehorse, flew to Tuktoyaktuk Wednesday. They were
told by RCMP that Moreau was presumed to have drowned.
The two men conferred with Inuit guide Vince Steen over the possible movements of Morea based on where the
canoe had been found, then chartered an aircraft. Three hours later, flying southeast along the coast of Cape Bathurst about 600 kilometres west of Tuktoyaktuk, they spotted the 35-year-old adventurer.
  Schwarz said the guide had offered his services to the RCMP, but the help was refused. ‘‘What this means is the abandoned search was totally and painfully inadequate,” Schwarz said.
  Moreau was alone when he left Tuktoyaktuk Aug. 1, planning to follow the Arctic coast northeast of the most-northwesterly settlement in the Northwest Territories.
  He fell into the water while on an expedition across the ice floes from his base camp and his canoe drifted away. He swam and waded 600 metres across the floes to shore.
  Schwarz said most people would not have lasted more than four minutes in the icy water.
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                    Summer activities for the playground groups may wind up with a bang; but for David On taraet Talic, 8, it ended with a splash. David was participating in the penny carnival sponge “ throw at the Exhibition Grounds Wednesday. The penny carnival was the wind-up of the summer playground activities, sponsored by the city, for youngsters.
School board spurns pact
by JOHN POPE Citizen Staff Reporter
  The Prince George school district has rejected the latest offer from its 380 non-teaching employees who are locked out in a labor dispute.
  Bruce Strachan, chairman of the school board,said today that the offer from the International Union of Operating Engineers is ‘‘too high and too excessive.”
  The IUOE represents the 380 non-teaching employees who work as clerks, custodians and cafeteria personnel. The workers were being served with a lockout notice July 18.
The decision to reject the offer was made by the school
board during an in camera meeting Tuesday.
 School board chairman Bruce Strachan said Wednesday the board would not announce the decision until Aug. 29.
 However, the rejection became public later Wednesday when revealed by school district secretary-treasurer Mac Carpenter.
  The union has been offered a
7.5	per cent wage increase which is similar to the one already accepted by the carpenters’ union.
  But the IUOE wants a 60-cent wage increase which would work out to roughly a 9.8 per cent wage hike.
  “1'his would be totally unrealistic to the board as an employer,” said Strachan, during an interview today.
  ‘‘We won’t vary very much from the settlement we have already made with the carpenters and joiners.”
  But local union president Murray Odegaard claims the 60-cent across-the-board increase (about 9.8 per cent) is not excessive.
  ‘‘I think they gave the carpenters an extra 10 cents an hour just to sell us out,” said Odegaard today.
  The other issue in dispute is the district’s desire to reduce the payout of accumulated sick leave after five or 10 years of
employement. Currently employees who have worked for the district for five years can accumulate 90 days of payout (18 days a year), while those with 10 years of service get 180 days.
  The school board wants to reduce this payout to a maximum of 50 per cent or 60 days, whichever is less, for those employees who quit after five to 10 years of service.
  It would also like to reduce the payout to 120 days or 100 per cent of accumulated time, whichever is less, for those with more than 10 years of service. It would pay the difference now to those who have more than 120 days of accumulated time.
Air Canada pilots accept late offer
 by STUART LAKE The Canadian Press
 OTTAWA (CP) - Air Canada averted a second threatened strike by its 1,500 pilots within two months at a late hour Wednesday but the one-year contract that was signed has only three more months to run before it expires.
  The strike had been scheduled to start at 3 a.m. EOT today.
  ‘‘I hope we don’t have to come that close again,” commented Air Canada president Claude Taylor as he appeared at a news conference with Capt. Norman Foster, chief negotiator for the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association (CALPAi.
  Last month the pilots threatened to strike, saying Air Canada broke an agreement that off-duty pilots could fly first class.
  The two parties agreed Wednesday to have the federal labor department appoint a
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fact finder who would report publicly on the issue within 30 days. They also agreed the issue must be settled in the contract to be signed after Nov. 30.
  The main issue in the contract, still to be ratified by the pilots, was a merged seniority list of Air Canada and Nordair .pilots.
  Air Canada has authority to purchase Nordair and the pilots say Nordair will become Air Canada’s main charter service. They want the right to fly some Nordair charters because such flights pay more to pilots.
  Taylor earlier said he could not bargain on the matter until Air Canada officially acquired Nordair. But Wednesday he said he would be willing to negotiate such a list if and when his company acquires Nordair.
  Foster said he was satisfied with the commitment and foresaw no trouble with the ag-
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reement being ratified by the pilots.
  The Nordair issue apparently held up final settlement until a late hour Wednesday. The parties met at the request of Labor Minister John Munro in a downtown Ottawa hotel at
9	a.m. EDT and remained behind closed doors through the lunch and supper hours with sandwiches and coffee being brought in.
   Foster said previously that no agreement could be signed after 7 p.m. EDT Wednesday but the parties agreed to set a second deadline.
   That one was barely met as negotiations continued past eight o’clock. But minutes before the media were invited in for a news conference, a bottle of cognac was delivered to the room—a.sign a settlement was being toasted.
  There was no disagreement with the demand of pilots for a one-year contract, providing salary increases of just over five per cent.
fare best Guerrillas get
  OTTAWA (CP) - Residents of St. John’s, Nfld., faced the highest rise in consumer prices during July, while those in Vancouver and Edmonton fared best, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
   In its monthly review of consumer prices in 14 regional cities across Canada, the federal agency found prices in St. John’s jumped by two per cent during July, the sharpest rise anywhere. By contrast, prices in Vancouver and Edmonton were up by only six-tenths of one per cent.
  Nationally, consumer prices in July were up by 1.5 per cent to an annual rate of 9.8 per cent.
  Higher food prices, mainly for fresh produce, meat, poultry and restaurant meals were the main contributing factors. Automobile prices and charges for dental care rose.
  In other regional cities, prices rose by 1.2 per cent during July in Halifax toan annual rate of 7.7 per cent. In Saint John, N.B., prices were up by
1.4	per cent during the month and 8.6 per cent in the year.
  Quebec City prices rose by
1.5	percent in July and 8.7 per cent in the 12 months. Montreal prices also were up by 1.5 per cent in the one-month period, but rose 9.1 per cent in the year.
  Consumer prices in Calgary were up by nine-tenths of one per cent during July and by nine per cent in the 12-month period.
money, passage
 MANAGUA (AP) - Leftist guerrillas flew to freedom today after releasing a throng of hostages and ending a stand-off at Nicaragua’s National Palace, reporters at Managua’s airport said.
  The guerrillas took with them an undetermined number of hostages and political prisoners freed by the Nicaraguan government.
 They were aboard two planes, a Venezuelan air force C-130 transport and a Panamanian jet, and were headed for Panama and Venezuela. The total number of those who boarded was not known.
Work resumes at Churchill
 CHURCHILL, Man. (CP) -Grain handlers returned to work Wednesday afternoon less than two hours after ratifying a contract proposal from the National Harbors Board.
  Their vote brought to an end a 13-day strike that has jeopar-dized hopes for moving a record 32 million bushels of grain through this northern Manitoba port.
  Port manager T. A. Latizon now says that the port is unlikely to achieve record grain movements this year.
   It was believed the estimated 40 to 50 guerrillas took a handful of diplomats and churchmen with them to guarantee safe passage out of Nicaragua. The political prisoners were released and put aboard the planes to meet one of the guerrillas’ demands.
Two of the Nicaraguan legislators held during the two-day siege at the capitol building said the guerrillas freed 1,214 persons held since Tuesday. Then the guerrillas boarded a school bus for the drive to the airport.
  Justo Garcia, a spokesman for President Anastasio Somoza, said the guerrillas released 200 hostages they had held since Tuesday but planned to take five hostages, believed to be three Roman Catholic churchmen and two diplomats, with them out of the country.
   He said the guerrillas would fly out later today, probably for Panama and Venezuela. Garcia said he believes the guerrillas agreed to accept a $5-rnillion ransom, half their original demand.
  There was no immediate confirmation of the release of hostages from the Red Cross, which has been monitoring the situation.
  During the day-long bargaining several off-duty pilots joined a group of reporters outside the bargaining room. All of them said they believed a strike would take place.
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THE WEATHER
   Cloudy skies with a few sunny periods and the chance of afternoon showers are predicted in the Prince George area today.
   Increasing clouds, with a few periods of light rain are expected this evening. The outlook for Friday is mainly cloudy with a few showers, and slightly cooler temperatures.
   The expected high today is 21, Friday 17. The predicted low tonight is 7, the low overnight was 7. The high Thursday was 21, t here was .2 mm of rain. On this date last year the high was 17, Ihe low 7.
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