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Special guests at Art Henderson’* 100th birthday party were former Mohawk players and coaches, Bill Bell, left, and Trent Beatty.
CITY MAN MARKS 100th BIRTHDAY
Stout, gin do the trick
  by HAZEL ALLAN Citizen Staff Reporter
   Working hard and raising hell is the secret to longevity, says 100-year-old Art Henderson.
   Prince George’s oldest bachelor turned 100 Friday, celebrating the day with a party at Simon Fraser Hospital where he has lived since 1969.
   Perhaps another reason for his full and healthy life is the bottle of stout and glass of lemon gin that Henderson takes each morning.
  A farmer from Ihe Peace River country, Henderson worked half a section in Buffalo Lakes, Alta., for more than 50 years, retiring to Prince George, in 1961 at the age of 81 to live with his younger brother, Bill.
   An avid sports fan — although he never played any sports — Henderson travelled with the Prince George Mohawks throughout the 1960s, going with them to all their away games, and becoming an honorary member in 1966.
   He can still remember the names of the most of the players, as well as the scores from many of the games.
   Born in Summerside, P.E.I. on March 7, 1880, Henderson was one of a family of nine. When he was 15, he moved with them to Port Arthur, Ont. where he worked for his contractor father laying foundations for houses and stores.
   In 1915, he moved with his father to Alberta, where they each homesteaded a halfsection in Buffalo Lakes.
   His first house burned to the
Local cablevision firm loses north system bid
   A Vancouver firm has beat out a Prince George company and six other applicants to bring cable television to Northeastern B.C.
   The company, 5440 Cable Ltd. of Vancouver, has received the licence from the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Commission to service Fort St. John, Dawson Creek Pouce Coupe, Chetwynd, Mackenzie, Taylor and Charlie Lake.
   Ron East of Prince George, who operates Central Interior Cablevision, said today “We thoughtour competition forthe licence would come from the local northern applications.
  We’re naturally disappointed that we didn’t get it, but one of our arguments all along was to get the decision out quickly and get the project under way,’’East said.
   The licence was the subject of a four-day CRTO hearing in Prince George in early December. Eight companies applied to service all or part of the area. The commission's decision was made public today.
   In granting the licence, the CRTO said it was satisfied, “the applicant can provide a quality cable service at a reasonable rate.”
   The commission’s eight-
  page decision said rates, the commitment to early service and the design and cost effectiveness was taken into account. The highly-representative local advisory committee was also noted by the commission.
    In issuing the licence which expires Sept. 30, 1983, the CRTC asked the company to look at expanding the service to Hudson Hope. Local programming was strongly emphasized.
   The cable company plans to carry CBC English and
 French, local off-air CTV signals, community programming, three U.S. commercial signals (KOMO-TV, KING-TV, KIRO-TV Seattle, Washington), KCTS-9 Seattle, and CFRN-TV Grande Prairie, Alberta, CTV (for Fort St. John and Dawson Creek only.)
   A fee schedule of $35 hookup and $13 monthly was approved by the commission.
   The signal will also carry six FM radio stations to subscribers.
  BULLETIN
   TEHRAN (CP)—The official Iranian news agency Fare announced Monday night that the ruling Revolutionary Council will not take custody of the American hostages held at the U.S. Embassy here.
  Ayatollah Bahonar, a member of the council, said the majority of council members expressed their unwillingness to take over the hostages from the militant students.
  The council met Monday night after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a state-
 ment saying the United Nations investigative commission now in Iran should only see those hostages accused of being involved in crimes of the deposed shah.
  Asked what would be the fate, of the hostages, Bahonar said: "The imam’s (Khomeini's) statement clears everything." And he went on to quote parts of Khomeini's statement concerning the UN commission and the conditions in which they would be allowed to meet the hostages.
 ground in 1916. Again in 1928,
  he lost his home and all his possessions to a fire.
   “In the early days I grew mostly wheat, with some barley and oats, and I kept a little cattle,’’ Henderson said.
   He remembers using a horse and plough before the age of tractors, and said he was lucky, in that most of his land was open or light bush, so he didn't have to clear it, to any great extent.
   In a thriving fa~m community, with many Scandinavian families, parties and dances were held regularly in the community hall.
   Although he attended them all, he didn't dance.
   “My brother Bill was a good dancer, but I liked to watch the girls, and see them show their legs," Henderson said.
   When asked why he never married, Henderson said all the women he would have liked, didn’t want him; and the one who did want him, “the devil wouldn’t have had her.’’
   He attended all the ball games, lacrosse matches, and hockey games held in Buffalo Lakes, and supported the local teams.
   He also enjoyed horse racing, particularly harness racing.
  Henderson doesn’t remember when he bought his first car, but says it was a Ford V-8, sports model.
   But for many years, he recalls travelling by horse, using a sleigh in winter.
   Although “life was pretty rough, we had lots of good times," Henderson said.
   He said that one of the biggest changes he has seen in a century of living, is the virtual eradication of some diseases. He remembers spending nearly two months in hospital, when he was in this 20 s, with typhoid fever.
   Although he “never gave a hell of a lot of thought" to whether he would reach 100, Henderson looked forward to his birthday tea, promising to "give a good try” to blowing out all 100 candles on his cake.
Dolphins
fighting
back?
  NAGASAKI, Japan (Reuter) —A U.S. environmentalist who freed 250 dolphins on Iki Island was arrested on Saturday as 4,000 more of the sea mammals unexpectedly converged on the island.
   The Nagasaki district prosecutor’s office said Dexter Cate, 36, of Hawaii, was detained because he planned to leave Iki for Hawaii before investigation of the incident, in which he freed dolphins that fishermen had planned to kill.
   On Saturday, 4,000 dolphins massed around the island, preventing fishermen from fishing. That event forced 400 fishing boats to return to port emptyhanded, the local fisheries cooperative said.
  The dolphins’ behavior Saturday probably will be viewed by environmentalists, who consider the mammals to be almost human, as a deliberate act of revenge or protest.
Connally drops out
  By Associated Press Fourteen months, $10 million and one delegate after entering the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. president, John Connally is out of the contest.
   He quit Sunday, a day after losing badly to Ronald Reagan in South Carolina, and two days before primaries in Georgia, Alabama and Florida — all states where Reagan is heavily favored.
  Connally called Reagan “still the champion.”
   With Connally out, former president Gerald Ford is sure to feel new pressure to challenge Reagan, whom Ford considers too conservative to win the White House. Ford has said there is a 50-50 chance he will step in to try to deny Reagan the nomination.
   But Connally, who entered as Reagan’s major conservative challenger, in effect disagreed. Connally said he thinks Reagan might wrest the presidency from Jimmy Carter,
Quebec sovereignty: Poll shows majority opposed
by PETER COWAN Southam News
  MONTREAL — A major poll which indicates most Quebecers will vote no in the sovereignty referendum is bad news for both Premier Rene Levesque’s Parti Quebecois and the federalist cause.
  The survey, conducted by Radio-Canada and the prestigious polling house le Centre de recherche sur I’opinion publique (CROP) shows that 52 per cent of Quebecers would vote no to the PQ goal of sovereignty-association, meaning an independent Quebec in a common market and monetary union with Canada. Forty-one per cent would vote yes and seven per cent are undecided.
  It is bad news for Levesque because it suggests the PQ will have an almost impossible fight on its hands in order to turn the situation around between now and the referendum which is expected in early June.
  But it is also bad news for federalists because it also shows that when English and ethnic respondents are separated from
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French-speaking respondents, a majority of French-speaking Quebecers are preparing to vote yes.
 This simply demonstates that among Quebec's French-speaking majority enough people reject the federal system, or are dissatisfied enough with it in its present form, that they are ready to support the government’s proposed question seeking a mandate to negotiate sovereighty-association with
the promise that a second referendum will be held, after such talks, before Quebec’s political status is changed.
 The figureson the Frenchspeaking population are eloquent.
 According to the survey, 48 per cent of French-speaking Quebecers plan to vote yes. while 46 per cent will vote no. Six per cent are undecided.
 In the 40 ridings of the Montreal region, which is the most
 populated part of the province. 51 per cent of francophones planned to vote yes when the survey was taken between January 29 and February 15.
  Outside the Montreal region, the no vote is leading among francophones, where the yes vote drops to 41 per cent.
  The poll also shows men are more inclined to vote yes than women.
  Among non-francophone voters, the poll indicates that 81 per cent will vote no. 10 per cent will vote yes and nine per cent are undecided.
  The results of the poll can hardly give comfort to federalists where French-speaking Quebec is concerned. But. by the same token, it does not mean that all those Frenchspeaking Quebecers who wuld vote yes embrace the idea of Quebec independence.
  While the poll shows a majority are satisfied with the phras-ingof the government's question, it also shows that a majority of French-speaking Quebecers and all Quebecers prefer “renewed federalism." meaning constitutional reform, to any other option.
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 The Vancouver Canucks are struggling to hold onto the final playoff spot in the National Hockey League. Page 11.
 Mystery malady . . .
     Flight attendants on routes between New York and Florida have been affected by a mysterious "red sweat”, a U.S. newspaper says. At least 120 cases of the malady have been reported. Page 5.
 Expected in Moscow
 Most people in the Soviet Union apparently expect the United States to show up for the Moscow Olympics. Page 11.
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 BUT FRENCH-SPEAKING RESIDENTS WOULD VOTE YES
STRIKE STILL POSSIBLE
City employees to vote on pact
  by JAN-UDO WENZEL
   Citizen Staff Reporter
   A tentative agreement was reached between the city and its employees Saturday, but the possibility of a strike has not been eliminated.
   After marathon bargaining sessions between the city and the Canadian Union of Public Employees with the help of government mediator Vince Ready, the tentative pact W2; signed Saturday.
   The 500 city workers will hold a ratification vote Wednesday, but the union executives will not make any recommendations whether to accept or reject the pact.
    The possibility of strike still looms if the membership rejects the terms.
   The tentative agreement calls for a two-year contract retroactive to Jan. 1. .
    In the first year, it provides employees with an across-the-board increase of 12.5 per cent, and by Jan. 1, 1981, another 90 cents an hour.
   Other improvements include health and welfare benefits to be paid 70 per cent by the city and 30 per cent by the employee, up from a 50-50 split.
    Under the old contract inside workers earned between $810 and $2,004 a month while rates for outside workers ranged from $7.38 to $10.14 an hour.
    City council is expected to debate the terms tonight.
    But there are undercurrents within the union.
    The outside workers are represented by CUPE Local 399 and the inside workers by Local 1048.
   CUPE staff representative Maurice Gagne said the terms of the tenative agreement covers both locals, but if one of the locals rejects the terms, the only alternative is strike.
    That will affect both locals, as pickets would be posted and union members would be expected to honor them.
   Mayor Elmer Mercier said today he preferred not tc comment until after council was presented with the contract.
    "However, I am pleased that it is a two-year agreement,” the mayor said.
    The union has held a strike mandate since Feb. 16, and Ready was, appointed to mediate the dispute.
   The final bargaining sessions started at 1 p.m. Thursday and the first recess was called at 3 a.m. Friday. Both sides returned to the table at S a.m. Saturday.
   "It was hard bargaining on both sides and we all appreciated Ready’s work,’’ Gagne said.
   He explained why the union executives are not making any recommendations.
    "We did not achieve what we set out to do, and it must be a membership decision to affect the outcome,” Gagne said.
   CUPE was demanding between 16 and 22 per cent for the outside workers and 9.5 per cent for inside employees.
    The city’s last offer had called for wage increases of 8.5 per cent.
   “What we accepted was the city’s final offer and we felt obliged to bring the terms back to the membership instead of turning them down," Gagne said.
   Gagne said the union was trying for parity with the forest industry and this tenative pact would bring civic workers closer.
    He would not predict an outcome of Wednesday’s vote.
   "Our members must realize that rejection will result in a strike. There’s no other way," he said.
( THE WEATHER )
 •	An alert resident has pointed out an error in a Now Hear This item Thursday on the 65th anniversary of the city. The item said Central Fort George joined with Prince George to become one city. In fact, Central Fort George was a townsite under development west of what Is now the city core, wasnot taken in, and most of the businesses there abandoned the location, moving their buildings to the new townsite of Prince George.
 •	A College of New Caledonia student was surprised when the cigaret machine produced a folder of matches with "Success Without College” emblazoned across the cover. On the inside was an application form for a number of correspondence courses.
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TODAY
   The forecast for tonight and Tuesday calls for cloudy skies and occasional snow flurries.
   The expected high today was 3, the low tonight -4. Tuesday’s forecast high is 3. The high Sunday was 2, the low 0, with 9.6 cm snow. On this date last year the high was 10, the low -4.
   Sunset today is 6:04 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday is 6:38 a.m. and sunset 6:06 p.m.
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