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Monday, November 27,1978
Vol. 22; No. 230
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Prince George. British Columbia
COSTS CLIMB 25 PER CENT
College expansion set
QUESNEL (Staff) - An “expansionary budget” of $8.2 million, or almost 25 per cent more than last year’s was approved for the College of New Caledonia Saturday.
The budget will add 34.5 new positions at the college, mostly in faculty areas in community education and the vocational-technical areas.
“It was the best presentation of a budget that I’ve ever seen,” said college council chairman Ruth Rushant, dur-
ing an interview today.
“And it’s based on approval by the council and verbal acceptance by the mini.'*rv of education that the college needs to expand particular! v in the region.”
The $8.2 million budget, which is $1.6 million more than last year, is designed to add regional one-person offices in Mackenzie and Quesnel.
It will expand programs in these areas and Burns Lake as well as bring college programs
to McBride and Valemount for thfe first time.
College bursar Jim Blake described it as an “expansionary budget” and said the increases are basically for either expansion of programs, or for converting part-time courses to full-time courses.
The programs to be expanded are: business, hospitality (hotel workers), music, social work, forestry, adult basic education and coaching sciences.
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Coma lasts 37 years
Elaine Esposito, in a coma for 37 years, three months and 20 days, died Sunday at age 43. It ended what is believed to be the longest human coma ever. Page 5.
Home and Family . . .
The first of a 10-part Ann Landers encyclopedia appears in today’s Home and Family section. The series is a guide to handling problems such as teenage sex, alcoholism, marriage and loneliness. Page 32.
Feeling
lucky?
Check those Provincial Lottery tickets — you could he a millionaire. The lucky numbers. Page 5.
Index
Jhe. Provincial
Bridge............ Entertainment...... ......34-36
Business........ ........11, 14,15 Horoscopes............ ............27
City, B.C........ ......2, 3, 13, 25 International......... ..............5
Classified....... ..............16-21
....................34
Crossword..... Sports.....................
Editorial......... ......................4 Television.............. ............35
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The forecast for today and Tuesday calls for cloudy conditions with snow flurries and mild temperatures. The expected high both days is 1; today’s forecast high is -5.
The nigh Sunday was 1, the low -1 with no precipa-tion. On-this date last year the high was 0, the low -6.
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• Asked if the. federal cabinet shuffle would have any ef lect, a city resident commented, “Does it make any difference if they change the order of the acts on the Gong Show?”
• It’s that time of year again when Citizen Christmas Carol sheets are available free of charge to individuals or groups. Drop in to the front counter at The Citizen. The song sheets are available on a first-come, first-served basis as long as supplies last.
United Way
Target: $185,000 Today’s total: $178,136
OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Trudeau urged the 10 provincial premiers today to help him draft an economic and industrial policy for the 1980s that will bind Canadians, generate jobs and overcome the destructive force of inflation.
“Our purposes are not to dwell upon our past mistakes or our immediate difficulties,” Trudeau said as he opened a three-day economic summit, the second by the 11 government leaders this year.
Instead, it was important for Canada’s unity and prosperity that the leaders concentrate on policies to “restore full economic health” into the next decade.
“Understanding and cooperation must win the day,” he said. But he added that any agreements by the 11 must not weaken the ability of the federal government to act on behalf of all Canadians.
Trudeau said he has been struck by arguments that federal action to reform the constitution is an attempt to divert attention from pressing economic questions.
In fact, the two were inseparable, he said. Failure.to make progress on economic issues —particularly near chronic problems with unemployment and inflation-would “destroy our will for constitutional reform and renewal.”
It was important to move on both fronts to help dispel “the air of doom that prevades us all.”
Fifth Ave. work costly report says
Cancelling a Second Avenue overpass at Highway 97 in favor of a reconstruction of the Fifth Avenue-Bypass intersection would cost the city about $1.2 million extra, says an engineers’ report to city council today.
Second Avenue area residents protested earlier this year that a change of their quiet street to a residential collector steet would upset their neighborhood.
They successfully petitioned council to get a new traffic study done to bring a 1973 study up to date.
The new study and the 1973 version were done by Stanley Associates Engineering Ltd. Stanley recommended the Second Avenue upgrading as part of the Foothills Bridge street system.
Council is to discuss the report at 3 p.m. today at its regular meeting.
The overpass and street widening would take traffic off the Fifth Avenue - Bypass Highway intersection, already considered over-crowded.
The Second Avenue alternative will cost about $1.3 million compared to $2.5 million for a re-constructed Fifth-Bypass intersection, which would include an overpass and diamond interchange.
The highways department will pay for a $660,000 overpass cost, but has indicated to city officials it won’t pay any additional funds for a Fifth-Bypass intersection improvement.
An $8 million program of additional street improvements in the next five years to accommodate an anticipated 75,000 city population was in-cjuded in the report.
Joining forces
Citizen photo by Dave Milne
Canada Manpower and the Unemployment Insurance Commission are back under one roof. Marian Hof, seated, of Manpower, helps Donna Hofferd adjust to the arrival of the Manpower personnel at the UIC building on Sixth Avenue. The government services were reunited after a three-year trial separation. Legislation last year combined the services under the title Canada Employment and Immigration Services. The centre opened for business as usual today.
Canadians die in fire at hotel
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (CP) -Five Toronto-area women from two families and two other Ontario residents were among at least 10 persons who died when fire swept through a fully-booked hotel early Sunday.
At least 24 persons were admitted to hospital, including 13 Toronto-area women and four firemen.
Police said about 50 persons jumped from second-floor windows of the Holiday Inn to escape the flames, which at times shot 30 metres into the air. The fire raged out of control for two hours and caused an estimated $1 million damage.
Five of the Canadians who died in the fire were Ruby Cushinan, 81, and her daughter Ruby, both of Toronto; Margaret Duncan, 57, of Toronto, her daughters-in-law Pam Sundue, 30, of Toronto and Huguette Sundue, 33, of Brampton.
The names of the other twou Canadian victims have not been released.
Don Riley, a town supervisor, said five of the dead were found heaped together in a second-floor hallway near an exit.
The Monroe County medical examiner’s office said all 10 victims died of smoke inhalation.
At least 120 of the 200 guests registered at the 91-room Holiday Inn-Northwest in the Rochester suburb of Greece were Canadians .
Police constable named in shooting of city man
by AL IRWIN
Citizen Stuff Reporter
The bullet that killed a Prince George man Sept. 25 after a police chase was fired from the service revolver of RCMP Constable Serge Pepin, an inquest was told today.
Corporal David William Cochrane of the RCMP Forensic staff in Vancouver, was testifying at the inquest into the death of Charles Herman Demery, 24, of 1797 Redwood St.
Cochrane said six shots were fired from Pepin’s service revolver and three were fired
STRIKE NOTICE
from a revolver belonging to Constable Gary Harvey.
The inquest, which opened today and is expected to continue until Wednesday, was told Demery was killed after police cornered his vehicle on Brigade Crescent near Fifth Avenue and Tabor Boulevard.
Dr. Robert A. Maclnnis, pathologist at the Prince George Hospital, testified that Demery died of a single gunshot wound to the head. The doctor said the bullet entered near the middle of the back of the v icti m’s head and travel led upward and forward, tearing the main vein and draining blood from the brain.
The bullet was deflected by
ICBC 'open' here
Employees of the Insurance Corporation of B.C. are marking time after serving 72-hour strike notice Friday.
Lome McCuish, manager of the Prince George ICBC claim centre, said today there had been no developments since the Office and Technical Employees Union served strike notice Friday.
“There was a rumor going around ... I don’t know where these things come from... that the union would be locked out today, but they’re all here and the doors are open," he said.
Talks broke down on Thur-
sday in Vancouver but so far mediator Jack Chatelas has not reported out of the dispute. The mediator must report out before a strike can legally begin.
OTEU represents 2,200 ICBC employees in the province. The union is asking for an 8.5 per cent increase in the first year of a two year contract, with six per cent the second year.
The government insurance agency has countered with an offer of 5.75 per cent in the first year and has not made a specific offer on the second.
the skullcap and travelled downward through the left frontal lobe and lodged in the brain.
The doctor testified that Demery died of extreme cerebral hemorrhage caused by the bullet wound.
Marianne Sieck, the hospital’s head records administrator, testified that Demery was admitted to the emergency ward at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 26. He was pronounced dead at 9:10 a.m. that day, she said.
Prince George lawyers Allan Hope and Glen Parrett represent, respectively, constables Pepin and Harvey. Dawson Creek lawyer Donald Clancy represents the crown. David Ramsey of Prince George represents Demery’s family.
Under examination by Hope, Cochrane said he had been told by his superiors not to discuss the case with the lawyers representing Pepin and Harvey.
Cochrane said normally he would give information to both sides and was prepared to do so until instructed otherwise.
He said he was given no reason for his instructions.
Vancouver coroner Glen MacDonald is presiding over the inquest. Local coroner Bill Stanton, a former RCMP member withdrew after noting a possible conflict of interest.
A five-man, two-women coroner’s jury is hearing the evidence.
BULLETINS
MONTREAL (CP) — A sec-tion of the provincial language law making French the primary language of the courts was ruled unconstitutional Monday by the Quebec Court of Appeal.
The court rejected an appeal by the Quebec government against a judgment in January by Chief Justice Jules Deschenes of Quebec Superior Court that Chapter 3 of the French Language Charter contradicted articles of the British North America Act.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk were shot and killed Monday at City Hall, city officials said.
Diane Feinstein, president of the Board of Supervisors, said the killings occurred about 11 a.m.
Police issued an all-points bulletin for former city supervisor Dan White, who resigned recently.
Mosconc hud uppointed Rev, Jim Jones, who died with more than 900 followers in a mass suicide-murder in Guyana on Nov. 18, to the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1976. Jones subsequently became chairman of the authority.
Jf>nes had sent 150 members of his Peoples Temple to work for Moscone in the 1975 mayoral election. Moscone won by 4,000 votes.
Milk was the first self-proclaimed homosexual to be elected to the liourd of Super-
912 Temple victims flown home to U.S.
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE. Del. (AP) — Anonymous graves or cremation may await many of the 912 Americans who followed Rev. Jim Jones to their deaths in Guyana, government officials say.
the air force finished bringing all the decomposed bodies back to their homeland Sunday. However, after four days of work FBI and military experts have positively identified only 25 of the 512 bodies they had fingerprinted.
In Washington, Jeff Deterich, a state department spokesman, said the U.S. government has not decided whether to cremate unclaimed bodies.
He added: ‘‘Eventually, if a large number of unclaimed bodies remain in Dover.it may well be we will be forced to con-
sider that possibility.”
The body of Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple who led his followers into a suicidal death
rite at the cult’s commune in Guyana, was one of the first identified by FBI fingerprint experts. In Richmond, Ind., a
Exodus to Soviet Union?
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Top aides of cult leader Jim Jones conferred at least twice in Georgetown with an official of the Russian embassy who held out the promise of approval for the exodus of the whole Jonestown colony to The Soviet Union, a document made available to The Associated Press says.
Jones’ aide also discussed the “quick transference of
money” from Jonestown to the embassy to aid such a move, the document says. A few months after the meetings, Jones instituted compulsory study of Russian for the about 1,000 members of his Peoples Temple in Guyana.
Jones was known to fear attacks from across the Brazilian border by mercenaries hired by relatives of some of his followers to return them to the United States. He
was known to be seeking a safer haven and spoke of Cuba and the Soviet Union in his speeches.
A five-page typewritten memo found in the house where Jones lived and maintained his office revealed that aides of the cult leader met in Georgetown with the press attache of the Soviet embassy, Feodor Timofeyev, in December 1977 and again last March 20.
funeral director said Jones’ inlaws wanted his body and that of his wife and two of their children cremated and their ashes scattered into the Atlantic Ocean.
The state department said no arrangements have been made to dispose of Jones’ body.
Meanwhile, the FBI said it plans to examine closely today a letter an airman found on Jones’ body here Friday. FBI spokesman Tom Coll said agents had read the letter but were not certain the handwriting was that of Jones. He refused to divulge the contents.
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