Harold Pretty displays "nailed" candy.
NAIL IN A LOLLIPOP
Citjien photo* by Tiai Swanky
Halloween treats can be tricky
    by JAN-UDO WENZEL Citizen Staff Reporter
   Eight-year-old Sean Mearsof Prince George tried to start Halloween early by taking a wrapped candy from a bag his mother had bought at a local department store.
   He did not get a treat, but a dangerous surprise.
   A nail through the centre of the candy protruded through one end.
  The candy was made by Scott Bathgate and the bag was labelled Applepops by Nutty Club.
   Sean’s grandfather, Harold Pretty, said he could not imagine the nail being inserted accidentally. He said it appeared to him it was done deliberately, possibly at the factory where the candy was produced.
   He hopes that parents will closely examine all candy their kids bring
 home on Halloween night “because I can’t believe that if somebody puts a nail into one candy that they couldn’t have done it with quite a few,” Pretty said.
   RCMP are also warning parents and children of the dangers of halloween night, Tuesday.
   Constable Bob Ogilvie, RCMP community relations officer, said children should not eat any candy before their parents have a chance to examine all the goodies.
   And while it had always been assumed that factory-wrapped sweets would be safe, Ogilvie said the example of the one candy Sean Mears found should get parents to look at all the goods the kids bring home.
   But Ogilvie said there are other dangers.
   “Most trick or treaters go out after dark and they are hard to see. Children
 should have reflecting stickers or armbands affixed to their costumes. Motorists can see them better,” he said.
   For safety, he suggests children should walk in groups and use sidewalks.
   “If there are no sidewalks the children should walk on the left side of the road facing traffic,” he said.
   As a final precaution he said children should not accept rides from strangers.
   But motorists can also play their role for safety.
   Ogilvie said that if there is ever a day for defensive driving, it’s Halloween.
   “Hardly ever will you find so many small kids out after dark, and motorists must co-operate to assure their safety," he said.
TRUDEAU TELLS PREMIERS:
'Ball is in your court'
  OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Trudeau blamed provincial premiers today for holding up constitutional reform in the past, then urged them to help him write a new constitution that would promote national pride, economic stability and unity.
   “The ball is in your court gentlemen, and 1 suggest you serve it soon,” Trudeau said in a statement opening three days of nationally broadcast debate on the constitution.
   Constitutional reform is “urgent and necessary," Trudeau said in a 40-minute speech that was alternately blunt and conciliatory.
   Premiers, in subsequent opening	statements,
 agreed—as they have often in the past —that reform is needed. But there were indications that they considered it somewhat less than urgent.
   Ontario suggested Trudeau was exaggerating problems of division in the country. Quebec indicated the prime minister may be encouraging the independence in that province with his repeated calls for constitutional change.
   Opposition leader Joe Clark, an observer at the conference,
 said he considered the prime minister’s approach “confron-tative.”
   “It would be dangerous to establish an artificial air of urgency,” Clark said.
   NDP leader Ed Broadbent, also at the meeting, disagreed that Trudeau had been aggres-sive. He described his approach as tough-minded, demonstrating that “the time for action is indeed here.”
   “I think this conference should come up with some of
 the answers. I think the ground for agreement is there, especially in provincal manage-, ment of resources."
   Trudeau said the time has come when government leaders must get on with the job of constitutional reform, or hand it over to others.
   “We can do it," he said, urging the 10 junior leaders to join him in the “the incredibly difficult, uphill task.”
See also pages 3, 6
ICBC strike backed
 VANCOUVER (CP) -Union members employed by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia have voted 82 per cent to take strike action if necessary to achieve a new collective agreement a spokesman for the Office and Technical Employees Union says.
  The spokesman said the union will contact ICBC next week to arrange a meeting for collective bargaining. The last contract expired Sept. 30.
  A union spokesman said strike notice will only be served on the Crown corporation if a settlement can’t be
 reached through negotiation.
   The major outstanding issues are wages, hours of work and salaries. The corporation wants a two-year agreement while the union wants it to cover one year.
   The corporation has offered a general increase of five per cent in salaries to a maximum of $1,000 a year, while the union wants 9.5 per cent in one year.
  ICBC has also offered bonuses of up to$l,000 a year to motivate employees to achieve a high standard of performance.
Fog here hampers car checks
    Fog and icy road conditions made Operation Counter Attack more difficult and dangerous for police in Prince George Friday.
   Counter Attack, a campaign against driving and drinking, resulted in six arrests for impaired driving and nine roadside suspensions during the weekend.
   “Fog and icy roads make it more difficult for everybody to operate, but it makes it more dangerous for police to carry out their jobs," said Sgt. Ken Craig, in charge of the RCMP traffic section here.
    Craig said that poor visibility and ice on the road often prevents motorists seeing the police too late to properly stop. A sliding car could endanger the flagging officer.
    "It also makes it more difficult to find cars that have gone off the roads," he said.
    Craig, said road blocks were set up in various locations and at varied times. A total of 605 vehicles were checked.
   The average number of arrests for drunken driving is between 20 and 25 per week, Craig said.
   He said these roadside checks will be continued not
   See POLICE page 2
BCR SHUT DOWN 60 HOURS
Tentative pact ends rail strike
   B.C. Railway employees were called back to work today after a tentative pact was reached to end a 60-hour walkout that began Friday.
   Locals in Prince George began scheduling meetings to discuss the agreement, reached after a marathon 17*hour negotiating session in Vancouver.
   Pickets were posted Friday night after negotiators failed to reach agreement. However, Labor Minister Allan Williams called for talks to continue.
   The tentative pact was reached at about 7 a.m. today and pickets were withdrawn.
   No details of the agreement were
 announced pending ratification by 2,100 members of the seven unions of the joint council. But the agreement calls for a one-year contract. The BCR board of directors also will have to ratify the agreement.
   Union raficiation is expected to take about 10 days.
   Leon Beaulieu, in charge of Prince George BCR operations said, attempts were being made to recall train crews today.
   “It will not take too long to get going again, because nothing was really wound down, because the strike started only on Friday,” Beaulieu said.
  BCR spokesman Hugh Armstrong
 said it will take about three days to get operations back to normal.
   The first freight train northbound will leave North Vancouver about 10 p.m. today, Armstrong said.
   Earlier during the weekend, union negotiators rejected a wage and fringe benefit package offer of 8.6 per cent.
   The seven unions had been without contract since July 31.
   Local 6, Canadian Union of Transportation Employees, will meet tonight at 6 p.m. at the Carpenters Hall, while the united Transportation Union will meet at the same hall at 4 p.m. The other unions will meet at various times and locations.
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Monday, October 30, 1978 ‘ .Vol. 22; No. 210 Prince George, British Columbia
14 FOR ALDERMAN
Late-filers ensure lively city election
Man hits
largest'
jackpot
 LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A blind Korean War veteran won a $275,000 slot-machine jackpot Sunday and the house that paid up said it is the world’s largest slot machine payoff.
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    Three running for mayor and 14 vying for five alder-manic seats, along with a controversial library referendum, should ensure a lively city election Nov. 18.
     At the noon close of nominations today, three aldermen had filed papers in a bid to occupy the chair being vacated by Mayor Harold Moffat.
     Two aldermen and 12 newcomers are running to pick up two of the five seats open.
     Running for mayor are: Vic Litnosky, Bob Martin and Elmer Mercier.
     The two aldermen seeking re-election are stockbroker Jack Sieb and assistant manager Don Wagner.
     The new faces to Prince George civic politics, seeking election as aldermen are: MichaelBundock,painter; RichardGod-fry, appraiser; Alfred Holdner, railway carman; Herbert Kap-peli, realtor; Stanley Massey, income tax consultant; Earl Mattenly, business counsellor; Barbara Munk, realtor; Stuart Ross, architect; Roy Spooner, life insurance salesman; Walter Shelest, self-employed trades worker; Garry Dale Steward, merchant; and Hans Taal, businessman.
     Voters also will be asked whether they want to borrow $2.1 million from the city’s land reserve trust fund to help pay for the proposed $3.5 million library.
     Electors voted two-one last year to build a new library as the first part of a cultural centre complex, but no cost figures were mentioned in that plebiscite.
    Eligible yoters number 25,220 compared with 24,215 in 1977. Nine hundred made decl-ra tions of eligibility at the polls in 1977.
    In other Central Interior elections:
 SCHOOL DISTRICTS Seven candidates are contesting the four, two-year seats on the board of School District 57 (Prince George).
     Only one of the seats will be uncontested by an incumbent trustee. Trustee Ruth Rushant is not running again.
   But trustees Austen Howard-Gibbon, Bru^e Strachan (board chairman) and Valemount trustee Eva Kettle will run again against four new candidates.
    The new candidates are:
  William Douglas Humphreys, technician; Clifford James Garvin Bezell, pharmacist manager; David B. M. Cutts, private agency social worker; and Frank E. Logan, building consultant.
    In the Quesnel School District, the race for five two-year seats will pit five incumbents against one new candidate.
 •Air radio manager Tom Parkin will be up against incumbents Margaret Ernst, housewife; Garnet Harry, engineer; Knud Norbjerg, businessman; Trevor Davies, forestry worker and Sig Fobe, construction foreman.
     The Nechako school district will have its three vacant two-year posts filled by new candidates — all by acclamation.
    The new trustees will be:
 Johnny Martins, logging superintendent; Ann Bodley Scott, housewife and John E.
  Froese, store manager.
      MACKENZIE Incumbent Mayor Bob Low faces a challenge from former alderman Al Anderton for the mayor’s seat. Mackenzie’s 2,300 voters will also be filling two vacant aldermanic seats from the list of incumbent Al Shaw, a millworker; machinst James Earl, houswife Ellen Stow; accountant Bryan With-age and terminal supervisor John R. Neufeld.
 FORT ST. JAMES This village’s 555 registered voters won’t get a chance to vote for council’s two, two-year aldermanic seats.
  Incumbent Peter Robin, a clerk at the government liquor store and Phil Lawrence, retired, were declared elected by acclamation today.
 McBRIDE Three people are in the running for the two vacant two-year terms on McBride council.
 Liquor store manager See ELECTIONS page 2
  James Schelich, Washington, Mo., jackpot on a progressive jackpot machine, which means the jackpot increases — up to a ceiling — until there is a payoff, said Ron Bell, spokesman for the Flamingo Hilton.
   Schelich had been playing for about one hour early Sunday when a companion informed him he had hit the jackpot by lining up five sevens on the bottom row of the slot machine.
  Bell said the previous largest jackpot was $250,000 won at the Las Vegas Hilton last July 20 by Mrs. Laura O’Neil of Miami, Fla.
   Barron Hilton, president of the hotel corporation, congratulated Schelich by telephone and invited him to be a guest for a week’s vacation for two at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
Black ice blamed for death
   MCBRIDE (Staff) - Police blame black ice on the road for the death here Saturday of a 14-year-old Quesnel girl.
   The girl died en route to hospital after a truck, driven by her father, went out of control and rolled down a 45-metre embankment 16 km west of McBride on Highway 16 at 6 a.m.
   The girl was thrown from the vehicle. Her father suffered minor injuries. Names were withheld pending notification of relatives.
   “People just have to slow down at this time of year" said CpI. Al Teale, who blamed winter weather conditions for two other accidents here during the weekend in which five people suffered minor injuries.
TODAY
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     The B.C. Lions struggled during the first half of the Canadian Football League season, but since being eliminated from playoff contention, they have been unbeatable.
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   Prince George’s forecast for today and Tuesday calls for cloudy skies with gusty winds up to 30 km per hour.
   The expected high today is 5, the low 0. Tuesday’s forecast high is 8.
  The high Sunday was 0, the low -4 with no precipitation. On this date last year the high was 6, the low -1.
( NOW HEAR THIS)
 •	Women’s lib may be going too far. Five city women began a poker game at 8 p.m. Saturday and didn’t finish until 3:30 A.M. Sunday. And they were drinking. Whatever happened to bridge and whist? Is nothing sacred?
 •	A 31-year-old city man has mixed feelings about the results of his health hazard appraisal test at the local YM-YWCA. Results show he has an appraised age of 16. When he took a similar test three years ago, his appraised age was only reduced by five years. “If this trend continues, I could disappear altogether," he quipped.
 0 A special order from a provincial court judge was required Friday to make school board chairman Bruce Strachan eligible to run for a second term as trustee. When Strachan had tried earlier in the day to file his nomination, he was surprised to learn his name had been omitted by error from the voters list. Judge J. H. Kenney granted an order permitting Strachan’s name be included, in time for him to make the noon deadline for nominations today.
United Way
 Target: $185,000 Today’s total: $101,737