STRIKES ESCALATE
British call on army
   LONDON (AP) — A million and a half British civil servants went on a 24-hour strike today, leaving hospitals short-staffed, schools, museums and some airports closed, and garbage uncollected. The government ordered the army into London to handle ambulance duties.
   The co-ordinated day of action by four unions representing public-service employees was called to protest the Labor government’s anti-inflation wage-increase guideline of five per cent.
   lhe work stoppages came on top of a nationwide truckers’ strike which started 20 days ago and has strangled Britain’s supply lines and forced the layoff of about 170.000 workers.
   A few workers went on strike Sunday, refusing to salt and sand icy roads. Police said the roads caused at least 100 driving accidents and seven fatalities.
   Among those striKing today were school
 caretakers and cooks, garbagemen, gravediggers, road repair workers, public bath and lavatory attendants, drain cleaners, municipal airport workers and hospital porters, orderlies and laundry workers.
   But officials viewed the ambulance workers’ job action as the most dangerous. Many rank-and file union members were refusing to answer emergency calls, as their leaders had pledged they would do. Most calls normally are for ferrying outpatients to and from hospitals.
   By mid-morning, officials estimated that only 20 of the 142 ambulances which normally serve I.ondon were providing any kind of emergency service. One dispatcher called it "chaos.”
   About 50 army ambulances and army crews were being sent in from the Royal Life Guards headquarters at Windsor Castle west of London, and police vans and volunteer ambulance services were pressed into service.
   City council faces a protest today by downtown businessmen over the location of a provincial drug treatment centre.
   A petition, signed by 150 individuals and downtown businessmen, is to be discussed when council convenes at 3 p.m. and hears the government side of the issue from drug commission John Russell and centre director Robert Herchak.
   Some members of council have complained that the centre site was selected by the provincial government without prior consultation with the city.
  Alderman Dale Steward touched off the countroversy when he complained at a council meeting two weeks ago that the centre would attract an un-dersirable element to the downtown core.
   The petition protests locating the centre at Fourth Avenue and Dominion Street and suggests it should better be located in the new public health centre near the Prince George Regional Hospital.
   Conversion of a building, which had housed a number of businesses on the busy
WEST KOOTENAY
 downtown corner, is well underway. Mayor Elmer Mercier told council last week that the centre includes a “containment” area.
   He said he was concerned with the safety of a locked holding area in a wood-frame building.
   Steward, who signed the petition and is a downtown businessman, said the centre will attract more social problems to the area and displaces businesses in an area, that is trying to attract more trade.
   Council has no jurisdiction over the centre location because it is a provincial facility and doesn’t have to conform to city bylaws.
   Another controversary returns to council at 8 p.m. today when a planning report on city boundary expansion and rural lot development is discussed.
   Deputy city planner Graham Farstad says in a report there is dangers to future city planning and future servicing costs if uncontrolled rural lot development on the city boundaries continues.
   However, he recommended against boundary expansion and suggests the city continue to support adoption of the
  Fraser-Fort George rural two residential subdivision control bylaw.
    Rural landowners are up in arms about what they see as a threat to their rights to subdivide and sell their property. Others are afraid of higher city taxation.
    Farstad says tlie tax mill-rate outside the city amounts to about one-third of that inside the city. He says rural landowners are using city facilities and ejoying city amenities financed by the higher city taxes, but they do not share in the costs.
    Also on today’s agenda:
 9 A report on a proposed service industrial development near Edgewood Terrace.
 .- A report on a tax-rate complaint from a North Nechako bench area resident.
 •	A report on development cost fees required by the new Municipal Act.
  9 A request for assistance from the Prince George Association for the Retarded.
  0 Budget review of the library costs and adoption of a provisional 1979 city budget.
  •	A proposal for a neighborhood pub in College Heights.
Schools arbitration set
   DUNCAN, B.C. (CP) - The West Kootenay schools dispute which led to a controversial piece of labor legislation for British Columbia last year will go to arbitration, Labor Minister Allan Williams said Saturday.
    Williams, here for a regional convention of the Social Credit party, said in an interview that Dr. Noel Hall, the government appointed mediator, has booked out of the dispute and
 Iran military supports PM
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -The chief of the Iranian armed forces gave full support to Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar today following his defiance of Ayatullah Khomeini’s demands that he resign. But the chairman of the Regency Council resigned, leaving only six of the nine members appointed by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi before he left Iran.
   “The entire armed forces stand fully behind the legal and constitutional government of Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar,” Gen. Abbas Gharabaghi told Iranian journalists.
 recommended binding arbitration in his report.
   The minister said an arbitrator will be appointed Monday and he hoped Hall will take the job because he is familiar with the dispute. He also said the arbitration period would be shortened if Hall accepted the appointment.
   Earlier, officials of the Canadian Union of Public Employees representing the
 250 non-teaching employees involved in the strike-lockout that began Oct. 26, said the dispute would end in arbitration because both sides were still too far apart under Hall.
 Schools were closed to about 15,000 students for six weeks until the government legislated the employees back to work and appointed Hall to mediate.
SNOWMOBILE PARTY
Ending is happy
  A search for seven persons in the Firth Lake area 100 km north of Prince George ended happily this morning.
  A search party of snowmobilers and cross country skiers went into the area and met the missing party coming out.
  The seven, five adults and two children, were to have returned Sunday noon, but failed to turn up as scheduled. The search was mounted at dawn today.
  The missing party included Victory Mazur, 35, his son Francis, 11. Gary Schuett, 35, his son Mark, Roland White of Salmon Valley, Dick Brett and Don Boehler. All are believed to be from the Prince George area.
  A spokesman for the Provincial Emergency Program said all are in good condition.
  He said a resident of the area had overheard Sunday that the party failed to make it up a long hill because of new snow and it was decided to camp for the night.
  "It was a search with a happy end,” the spokesman said.
 Ambulance attendants remove fire victim’s body from burned house.
SCHREYER TAKES OATH
Dazzling ceremony in Ottawa
   OTTAWA (CP) - Edward Schreyer became the 22nd governor-general since Confederation during a dazzling ceremony today in the red-carpeted Senate chamber on Parliament Hill.
   Schreyer’s transition from Manitoba politician to governor-general and commander-in-chief of the armed forces became official with his signing of an oath swearing allegiance to the Queen and her Canadian subjects.
    Schreyer took the oath on a Bible that has been in his family for 128 years. Until today, it had been used for only private family functions.
    As he took tlie oath, sunshine illuminated Parliament Hill for the first time since blizzard conditions had blanketed the city Sunday afternoon.
   Ottawa’s Cantata Singers serenaded the 1,500 persons who crammed into the ornate Senate chamber and spilled into the adjoining foyer.
    The governor-general’s flag was immediately raised above the Peace Tower, temporarily replacing a Canadian flag.
   Schreyer and his wife Lily then mounted a small dias and sat on thrones beneath a giant stone bust of Queen Victoria.
    A 21-gun salute, given only to heads of state, was fired from Parliament Hill, competing with the sounds of abbreviated versions of O Canada and God Save the Queen.
   Breaking with tradition, Schreyer was then installed as chancellor of the Order of Canada and commander gf the the Order of Military Merit. Previously, a new governor-general was given these honors following the investiture ceremony.
   Prime Minister Trudeau addressed the.assembly, saying Canadians have two spfecial reasons for welcoming
 Gov.-Gen. Edward Schreyer reads speech to the country us his wife sits at his side.
MUNICH MASTERMIND
 PLO chief killed
   BEIRUT (AP)—A bomb blast ripped apart an automobile in the l^banese capital’s Moslem sector today, killing eight persons, including Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s top security officer, the reputed mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, the Palestinian guerrillas said.
    Sixteen other persons were reported wounded.
    The dead were identified as security chief Ali Hassan Salameh—codenamed "Abu Hassan" -four Palestinian bodyguards and three Lebanese passers-by.
    The Palestine Liberation Organization said a parked car exploded as Abu llassan’s station wagon passed it, just after pulling away from his home. It said the booby-trap bomb apparently was detonated by remote control.
   The PLO and Al Fatah, PLO chief Arafat’s guerrilla group, issued tlie statement announcing the 36-year-old Abu Hassan’s death, lt said he died shortly after being rushed to hospital.
    Guerrillas cordoned off the area as ambulances raced to pick up the victims. Reporters and photographers were turned back.
 Schreyer as the new Queen’s representative—Schreyer’s German - Canadian background and his Prairie roots.
   “We will hear about ourselves and our potential from the vantage point of one who identifies strongly with the open spaces and open people of the West— with their history of pioneering struggle to set down new roots in a new land,” Trudeau read from a prepared text, alternating between French and English.
   "The second reason why we look upon your appointment as an event of historic importance is that, again for the first time, our first family will represent those millions of Canadians who trace their ancestry to countries other than Great Britain or France."
   Trudeau described the role of governor-general as "a potent symbol of our unity and united purpose and a symbol as well of the many streams of humanity which flow together into a uniquely Canadian experience."
   The new governor-general then read his first address to tlie country, making an impassioned plea for national unity.
   “The freedoms we now share and cherish are equal to the best of countries on this planet. They are surpassed by none. They can be greater still. It is not necessary to break the bonds of our common history to do so.”
   Today’s problems are nothing compared to the adversities of the first settlers and natives, he said.
   "To succumb to pessimism, to allow fragmentation, to accept the shattering of the Canadian mosiac is to break faith with all who endured so much to build so well what we have today.”
 Citizen photo by Doug W»Urr
Woman dies in fire
   Sandra Oralee McLaughlin, 33, died Saturday in a fire in her home at 171 Ruggles, becoming Prince George’s fourth fire victim of the year.
   The fire was reported shortly before 5 p.m. and is believed to have started in a room adjacent to the bedroom in which the victim was found.
   Two other persons in the house were rescued, police said.
    Cause of the fire isstill under investigation. Police believe McLaughlin died of smoke inhalation.
    The fire department also attended a fire Sunday in an apartment building on Sixth Avenue and Victoria Street.
    It is believed a smoldering cigarette in an ashtray on the armrest of a chair started the fire.
   There was nobody in the apartment at the time. Other apartments in the building were damaged by smoke.
Carter budget lean, austere7
  WASHINGTON (AP) -President Carter today sent Congress a “lean and austere” budget for 1980 that he said will increase defence spendings and benefit the poor while helping to throttle the government’s appetite for spending.
    But there are controversial cuts in jobs programs and a freezing of other programs for states and cities that are certain to cause Carter problems within his own Democratic party.
   The budget, which totals $531.6 billion, sets aside $2.5 billion to be paid to workers as inflation insurance, if Congress approves. There would be a 1980 deficit of $29 billion, down from $37.4 billion this vear.
TODAY
FEATURED INSIDE j ( THE WEATHER ) ( NOW HEAR THIs)
Tough bargaining ahead'
     Canada’s labor minister predicts a tough year of bargaining, but says unions are res|>onsible enough to show some restraint. Page 6.
 Super show.
     The Pittsburgh Steelers put on an impressive aerial show enroute to an exciting Super Bowl victory over the Dallas Cowboys. Page 7.
Ian Smith is busy. Con you call next week?"
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   The forecast for tonight and Tuesday calls for cloudy skies with periods of snow and mild temperatures.
   The exacted high today was -3, the low tonight -8 Tuesday’s forecast high is -1. The high Sunday was -3, the low -8 with .4 cm of snow. On this date last year the high was 1, the low -10.
 •	Sunday’s Super Bowl cost one Prince George man more than the standard $2 or $5 bet. After Pittsburgh's victory, the devout Dallas fan had a room full of spectators as he shaved his prize beard of three months.
 •	Alderman George Gibbin almost got "appointed” to a special job Friday ascouncil reviewed grant requests from local service agencies. During debate tlie elder citizens drop-in centre group was asked if it had tried to save the cost of an $8,000 bookkeeper by getting a volunteer. "Don’t look at me like that,” an elderly Gibbin ordered a young alderman across tlie room, "I haven’t the time.”
 •	Local cablevision makes another try today at council to get its version of Soap in the can for Tuesday viewing. Two previous run-throughs of regular council meetings have been plagued with technical problems. A camera will record verbatim the loves and hates of 11 city leaders as they make the decisions that shape tlie prince George of tomorrow.
PETITION TO COUNCIL
Addict centre
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Monday, January 22, 1979 Vol. 23; No. 15	Prince George. British Columbia