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                                 The 
 Vol. No. 25; No. 156                
 Tuesday. August 12, 1980            
 Prince George. British Columbia     
Citizen
'The Bay" joins major downtown talks
 Thick smoke from the Red Cedar Motel drifted almost a kilometer down Highway 16.
Motel
blaze
stubborn
    Prince George firemen had an early morning fire at Red Cedar Motel under control within an hour, but had trouble killing it.
   Motel manager Albert Schroeter reported the fire about 6:30 a.m., when he saw smoke pouring from a vent.
    The fire started near a laundry room inthe basement, then spread between the floor and ceiling, to other parts of the wood-frame, one-storey building, about six miles west of the city centre, on Highway 16.
    Schroeter said the motel was insured and he had use and occupancy insurance to cover business revenue which would be lost during repair time.
    No estimate of damage was available at press time.
 Bennett sues New Democrat
  VANCOUVER (CP) -Premier Bill Bennett launched a libel action Monday against MLA Dave Stupich over comments the NDP member made in a newsletter published July 30.
   The newsletter, entitled .report from the legislature, was mailed to Stupich’s constituents in the Vancouver Island riding of Nanaimo and to three area newspapers.
    Bennett’s action, filed in B.C. Supreme Court, seeks general and punitive damages on the grounds that the allegations made in the newsletter have seriously injured his character and that his reputation has been brought into public disapproval.
WAV CLEAR FOR CARTER
PANDA CUB BORN
Ted calls it quits Yi"9 Yi"9 a mom
[J	MEXICO CITY (AP) - A giant panda in Chapultepec Z
   NEW YORK (CP) - Senator Edward Kennedy brought his challenge to President Carter to a swift, dramatic end Monday night, leaving Carter assured of a second Democratic nomination but still seeking a way to enlist Kennedy’s support for a fall election campaign.
   “I’m a realist,” Kennedy said after losing a crucial rules fight at the opening of the 38th Democratic national convention that might have kept his underdog presidential hopes alive.
    “My name will not be placed in nomination,’’ the Massachusetts senator, surrounded by his wife Joan and family members, told a hushed group of reporters and supporters at his WaldorfAstoria hotel headquarters late in the evening.
    It ended a quest that started last Nov. 7 in Boston, on Kennedy’s home turf, and took him across the country through 35 gruelling primary-election contests while Carter remained in the White House, saying he couldn’t campaign because he was dealing with the Iranian crisis.
    Kennedy couldn’t break Carter’s nomination lock on the delegate majority who will vote for the Democratic nominee on Wednesday night, despite his efforts to win approval for an “open" convention in which delegates would choose whoever I hey thought could campaign most strongly against the Republicans this fall.
    By a margin of more than 500 delegate votes, the convention
KENNEDY
CARTER
 approved a rule binding delegates to vote for the candidate they were elected to support, ending any hope that Kennedy could deny Carter from again leading the Democratic ticket for the Nov. 4 elections.
   Carter had 1,936 delegate votes against 1,390 for Kennedy, a winning margin of 546. Four delegates did not vote.
Those vote totals were close
 to the delegate tallies Carter and Kennedy had won in the spring primaries, which showed delegates stayed faithful to the presidential candidates despite last-minute wooing from the opposing camps.
   Significantly for Carter, however, was Kennedy’s relatively stronger showing in industrial states like New York, which he won by 163 delegate votes to 118 for Carter. California 171 Kennedy to 132 Carter and Pennsylvania 102 to 83 in favor of Kennedy. These were the states where Kennedy campaigned for new economic and industrial policies to spur jobs and investment.
    It was a sombre and subdued Kennedy who came to the Waldorf-Astoria’s Starlight Room to announce he was withdrawing his candidacy, yet there was an echo of the feisty liberal spirit he showed throughout the ninemonth campaign against Carter.
   "I continue to care deeply about the ideals of the Democratic party,” he said. "I continue to care deeply about where the party stands."
    Kennedy's two-minute statement reminded many about his frequent criticisms of Carter for his conservative economic policies, and set the stage for Carter aides to start a convention lobby for the senator’s support in the forthcoming campaign
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   MEXICO CITY (AP) - A giant panda in Chapultepec Zoo has given birth to the first panda cub born naturally in captivity, zoo officials announced today.
   Dr. Juan Tellez Giron, a veterinary surgeon, said the mother. Ying Ying, had a normal delivery Monday after a gestation period of between 118 and 168 days. Veterinarians watched the birth of the 99gram cub on closed-circuit television.
   Tellez Giron said officials will ask the Chinese Embassy to suggest a name for the cub — but zoo officials favor the Chinese word for success.
   Zoos in Washington, D.C., Tokyo and London have sought unsuccessfully to mate pairs of giant pandas.
   Tellez Giron said Ying Ying and her companion, Pe Pe, probably mated because they live together year-round, unlike some other pandas in captivity, and are fed a special high-protein, vitamin-enriched diet.
    Ying Ying will nurse the cub for six months, until it is able to eat alone, zoo officials said. To avoid disturbing the mother, the public will not be allowed to see the new panda for three months.
Fire threat eases near Uranium City
  URANIUM CITY, Sask. (CP) — Some of the 700 residents evacuated Monday returned today to this northwestern Saskatchewan town as low winds eased the danger from a forest fire which had threatened their homes.
   Nearly 1,000 men worked with the aid of heavy equipment to complete a fire break around the town by about noon CST today, said Peter Cochlin of the department of northern Saskatchewan.
   After calm winds and a sunny sky gave a clearer view of the fire about one kilometre from town, Cochlin said the situation was not as bad as it
 appeared Monday night when heavy smoke hung over the area.
   The decision to evacuate those who wanted to leave came after a motorist on the highway saw flames at the edge of the road near town.
   Firefighters were back-burning some areas and were being assisted by water bombers and helicopters.
   *i would say we should be able to water-bomb it enough to cool it down and get hold of it,” Dale Nesbitt, an Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. mine employee said in an interview from the Catholic church rectory that was serving as the fire base.
by AL IRWIN Citizen Staff Reporter
   The Hudson's Bay Company is working with one of four major development firms preparing proposals for a downtown revitalization program that could cost as much as $50 million.
   The Bay and Cadillac Fairview Corporation Ltd. will present a preliminary schematic plan and financial proposal tocity council by Aug. 25.
   Mayor Elmer Mercier said the information, in a letter from Cadillac Fairview received by city council Monday, does not Indicate the Bay property on Third Avenue is part of six possible downtown sites under consideration for the project.
   ‘‘The Bay has indicated they could be in favor of locating in a new development.” Mercier said.
   The six sites won’t be made public until after the redevelopment scheme succeeds or the attempts to purchase the land from current owners fail.
   Council has met in closed session with one of the four development companies, Ira Young and Associates Ltd. The other two firms to submit proposals are Marathon Realty Co. Ltd., and Grosvenor International Holdings Ltd.
                                    The mayor says that the cost of the redevelopment is estimated at $20 to$25 million with one major "anchor”, or $40 to $50 million wilh two.
                             A major anchor, (large building in the complex) would be about 120,000 square feet.
                              The redevelopment is to cover several city blocks, and is expected to be a minimum of two storeys.
                                    The city and the chosen firm will start with the most desirable of six sites and try to assemble the land from individual owners.
                                      If the first site is scrapped because current owners expect unreasonable prices, the city will move to the next alternate.
                                   Council hopes to select the development firm by early fall.
Rockfest 'burden' to health officials
Cittern photo by Doug Wrlbr
  by# LESLIE PERRY Citizen Staff Reporter
   Almost all health requirements for a weekend rock music festival have been met — but concert promoters have put a ‘‘burden” on health district staff, the chief health inspector said today.
   David Coombe said he checked the festival site Monday and all essential health requirements aside from a power generator, about 10 more toilets, large garbage bins and lighting are on site — about 60 km east of here near Giscome.
    But Coombe said an event of this magnitude puts an unnecessary burden on an already over-worked health district staff.
    ‘‘There was no need for this last-minute rush, they could have come to us in February but because of the immediacy of the thing we’ve had to drop some regular programs and curtail others.”
    Coombe said the health district is short-staffed during the summer with only three field workers responsible for an area west to Houston, east to the Alberta border including McBride and Valemount, north to the Pine Pass including Mackenzie and McLeod Lake, south of Hixon and Prince George itself.
    “Even if everything is done on time,” Coombe said, “ a lot of things can go wrong at the last minute and if you run out of time — that’s it.”
    Health district officials are responsible for approving plans for and checking all food premises, public complaints on health matters, public water sampling in Prince George and other municipalities, checking and sampling individual sewage systems, and checking all rural subdivisions for water and sewage disposal.
    Coombe said staff must also do checks on private campsites, sub-standard housing, commercial and public swimming pools, sanitations and garbage systems, and inspect washrooms, lunchrooms, ventilation and playgrounds at all schools.
 “We also work closely with the city on the transfer of licences for any premise under the health act — this is time See ROCKFEST page 2
Jobless rate drops again
 OTTAWA (CP) - The unemployment rate in July dropped to 7.6 per cent, after a twomonth stint at 7.8 per cent, Statistics Canada reported today.
 The number of people unable to find work also fell, to 852,000 in July from 887,000 a month earlier.
 The decrease in the number of people unable to find work was the fourth in as many months this year.
 Newfoundland as usual had the highest seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate, but it was down to 13.7 per cent from 13.8 per cent in July.
 Similarly-sized decreases were recorded in three other provinces. In British Columbia the rate fell to 6.6 per cent, in Manitoba to 5.4 per cent and in Quebec to 9.9 per cent.
'Get out of town'
  A man who was released from jail on Aug. 1, never made it home to Burns Lake, but ended up in police custody during the weekend.
   He wascharged with fraudulently obtaining food and lodging in the amount of $85 from a hotel and a restaurant in Prince George.
  Tony Jack McLeod; 33, pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to one day in jail by Judge George O. . Stewart.
   But the judge told McLeod to get out of “my community, because you are nothing but a two-bit cheat, a bloody nuisance.”
   Since McLeod had spent the weekend in jail, his time was served. .
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 College football scandal
  A scandal has rocked a major American college football conference. Page 13.
 Massacre claimed
 Thousands of young women and girls have been massacred in Arab countries for adultery, says an international children’s aid organization. Page 5.
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THE WEATHER
   Sun worshippers can rejoice with today's and Wednesday’s forecast sunny skies. Highs of 25 are expected both days with a low tonight of 8.
   The high Monday was 24. the low 7 and on this date last year the high was 28. the low 9. Sunset today is 8:49 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday is 5:43 a.m. and sunset is 8:47 p.m.
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NOW HEAR THIS
 •	It’s not what you know it’s who you know. During city council debate Monday on the cancellation of planned beer gardens, Mayor Elmer Mercier said the beer strike was forcing the cancellations. An alderman replied that beer is still readily available in the city. “I’m the mayor of this city and my daughter is getting married ... and I can’t get one box of beer for that wedding,” Mercier replied. Two aldermen promptly offered to give the mayor a case. Alderman Dale Steward offered to sell him one.
 •	A crash course for hunter training starts this week at the College of New Caledonia. Registration for the by-popular-demand course, telescoped into two weekends from six weeks, is through the fish and wildlife branch (562-8131, local 360).
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