by JOHN POPE
Citizen Stnff Reporter
   Teachers and the Prince George school board reached agreement Thursday for a 12.5-per-cent salary increase on a one-year contract.
   The contract, which was informally ratified by the board earlier this week during a private session, received teacher approval Thursday by a vote of 329 to 12.
  The settlement means teacher salaries will range
 between $16,689 and $35,549 with administrators getting between $27,696 and $51,018.
   "It’s a fair and just settlement,” said Don Mullis, president of the 1,200-member Prince George and District Teachers’ Association.
    ‘‘It’s difficult to feel elated about any settlement in these times of economic uncertainty and high inflation.
   “But it (settlement) shows that the board and teachers are on the same wave-length in what teachers require at this time.”
POLLS OPEN SATURDAY
It's voting time
  City residents go to the polls Saturday to choose five city aldermen and four school board trustees.
  There are nine civic candidates and five school board candidates.
  Polls at eight locations throughout the city are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
  Locations are the secondary schools of Lakewood Junior, Kelly Road and Blackburn Junior and the elementary schools of Hart Highway, Edgewood, Vanway and College Heights.
Voters may also cast their ballots at the Civic Centre.
  There are 27,000 registered voters. In addition, anyone who is a Canadian, or a British subject, who has lived in Prince George three months, in B.C. six months, and in Canada one year, and is 19 years or older, may register at the polls.
  Also Saturday, voters from three regional district electoral areas will choose three directors from seven candidates and four school trustees from the five candidates.
  Polling stations will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 12 locations.
  In electoral area D (Pineview, McLeod I,ake, Stoner and Buckhorn) polls will be open at the Prince George Civic Centre, Blackburn Secondary School, Pineview School, Buckhorn School and Stone Creek School.
  In electoral area E (Hixon and Woodpecker) polls will be open at the Prince George Civic Centre and Hixon School.
  And in electoral area H (Valemount, Tete Jaune and Dunster) polls will open at the Civic Centre, Valemount Village Office, Tete Jaune School, Dunster School, McBride Village Office, Dome Creek School and the Aubrey residence (Crescent Spur).
  Other polling stations for rural school trustee voters will also be open at the following locations:
  Bear Lake School, Mackenzie Secondary School, McLeod Lake School, Nukko Lake School, Penny post office, Pineview School, Reid Lake School, Salmon Valley School, Helen Samuelson’s house in Shelley, Margaret Wit-tier’s house in Summit Lake, Upper Fraser School and Walter Cunningham’s house in Willow River.
  There is no election for regional district in the Area C area (Beaverly-Mud River).
  Voters for school district trustees in that area vote at Beaverly Elementary in Western Acres.
  The nine candidates seeking five council seats and five seeking four school board posi-tions give their last words before polling day on pages 43, 44 und 45 today.
   On page 3, seven candidates for three reg* ional district board seats state their reasons for running.
   Teachers and school board throughout the province have until midnight Saturday to reach a settlement or the matter, by provincial law, goes into binding arbitration.
   And school board chairman Cliff Dezell said today this was a consideration in the board’s decision to approve the contract.
   “We looked at settlements in other parts of the province and thought we might have to pay more if it went to binding arbitration,” said Dezell.
   "We didn't think the arbitrator would give less than 12.5 and might approve more than 13 per cent.”
   Dezell said settlements of more than 13 per cent have been approved in several Okanagan school districts and Kitimat settled for 12.7 per cent.
   In addition to the 12.5-per-cent increase for all Prince George school district teachers, there was a 20-per-cent increase in isolation and access pay.
   This is an additional amount paid to about 200 teachers living in certain areas outside Prince George.
    The 12.5-per-cent increase in the 1981 contract also applies to education bonuses paid to those teachers who upgrade their qualifications.
   This means about $270 for each full-year course completed by correspondence or summer school on the Lower Mainland.
   The school board has also agreed to have a committee review learning and working conditions of teachers which school boards are not required to do under the Public Schools Act.
   This will include matters like duty-free lunch hours, more preparation time for elementary school teachers, more liberal leaves of absence and a review of administrators pay scales.
   Prince George teachers settled for 9.4 per cent on their 1980 contract.
  BULLETIN
   REGINA (CP) — Ron Un-ouster’s resignation us head coach of Saskatchewan Roughriders wad announced today by Jim Spavital, general manager of the Canadian Football League club.
   Lancaster’)* resignation came just one day after the Roughriders said he had signed a new one-yenr contract.
   Earlier Btory page 14
Hello, dolly . . .
 Trudy Ottervein snuggles up to some of the more than 50 dolls she and her partner, Una McFarlane, are offering for sale at StudioFair, which opened at noon today at Studio 2880. The fair, which includes the creations of more than 120 local craftspeople, will also be open Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. Among the hand crafted items offered for sale are wooden toys, weaving, pottery, batik, ceramics, stain glass work and sewing.
BURIED IN GRAPEFRUIT, ORANGES
Students have tons of trouble
 by DON MORBERG Citizen Staff Reporter
    What’s round, weighs 20,000 pounds and is causing a big headache?
 The answer is oranges from Texas and grapefruit from
 Florida - a semi-trailer load of them — scheduled to arrive in Prince George Sunday. The citrus fruit is part of a moneymaking scheme that got out of hand for Duchess Park Secondary School.
Tax hikes hinted
  VANCOUVER (CP) -There were hints of a tax increase and possible cuts in expenditures when Finance Minister Hugh Curtis released the second quarter report on B.C.’s fiscal health on Thursday.
   Curtis said the province has weathered the recession currently being felt elsewhere and
 now would have to start putting money away the future.
   Noting that other provinces, including Alberta, are forecasting reduced revenues and higher expenditures for next year, Curtis said it would be “irresponsible of me not to suggest that some measures might have to be considered for 198182.”
   The school’s athletic team and band chose the sale of oranges and grapefruit as a fund-raising scheme-
  The scheme was simple enough. The students presold orders of oranges and grapefruit in 20 and 40-pound boxes for $11 and $20 respectively.
   The fruit is all top quality produce, picked, packed and on the truck to Prince George in a day and a half.
   The scheme had a sales target of 40,000 pounds of fruit, to be presold by the students of Duchess Park and Prince George Senior Secondary.
   Duchess Park fell short of its target by a little and PGSS fell short by a lot! The result is that half the oranges and grape-
 fruit remain unsold.
   The oranges and grapefruit are arriving Sunday at the Duchess Park gym, “and we’ve got to get rid of them,” said Duchess Park teacher Jim Foster, contemplating the idea of 10,000 grapefruit and 30,000 oranges, unclaimed, in the school gym.
   So the school is appealing to the public to drop by and buy some oranges or grapefruit. If you want a ton or so, they’ll be happy to talk to you, but if you only want a 20 or 40-pound box, they’ll still be pleased to hear from you.
   Foster or Marty Cross can be contacted at the school at 483-7124.
   The school is located at 2371 Ross Cresc.
12-month inflation:
10.9 pet.
  OTTAWA (CP) - Sharply higher energy prices pushed up the consumer price index by 0.9 per cent in October over September, increasing the annual rate to 10.9 per cent above last year, Statistics Canada said today.
   That was an increase from the 10 7 per cent registered in the previous two months and marks the fifth consecutive month that the index, the most commonly-used measure of inflation, was above 10 per cent. Higher prices for fuel oil, domestic natural gas and gasoline reflected increases in crude, oil prices in August which took time to work through to consumers, the agency said.
NOW HEAR THIS
( THE WEATHER ]
   This isn’t the start of something white; only a threat, according to the weatherman. This brief fling with winter and snow should turn to rain by this evening and Saturday should be sunny with cloudy periods. Sunday will see a few more flurries-About a centimetre of the white stuff visited overnight in most areas. Thursday’s high was 3, dropping to -1 overnight. Today’s high should be 2, going down to-6 overnight. Saturday’s high should be near 2. Sunrise (not that anyone noticed) was at 7:34 a.m. and the sun will set at 4:15 a.m.
Sadrack says . . .
Details Page 2
                             AIR CANADA, CP AIR FLIGHT ATTENDANTS
Airlines' strike could turn Christmas to chaos
by CATHERINE FORD Southam News
  TORONTO — Both major Canadian airlines are facing the threat of a Christmas strike by flight attendants, a strike which would cripple air transportation during the busiest season of the year.
  Air Canada's 3,500 flight attendants are set to go on strike during the Christmas travelling rush if final efforts to negotiate a new contract prove unsuccessful.
  And Larry Le Blanc, national president of the Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants Association, said in a telephone interview from his Vancouver office Thursday that “it’s not only going to be Air Canada, it’s going to be Air Canada and CP Air.”
  Negotiations between CP Air and their attendants lag a week to 10 days behind talks with Air Canada, said Le Blanc, who holds out little hope that a strike can be averted at Air
Canada.
  The union has been waiting since Oct. 24 for a federal commissioner to be named in its contract dispute with Air Canada. And once into arbitration, "it’s not going to take more than two to three days.”
  “We're not talking language or anything like that, it’s strictly money and the safety issue."
  But Le Blanc said the training program will start Monday, "if they haven’t already started.”
  "I’m positive they’re asking secretaries how many of them will work, and how many of them are interested.”
  The union negotiating committee refused to meet with company representatives in Toronto early this week, and sources close to both sides say the union is no longer willing to bargain. Earlier efforts at conciliation were unsuccessful.
  The union has been without a contract since July 1. Air Canada has offered the attendants a three-year contract with wage increases of 12 per cent the first year; 10.5 per cent for 1981 and 9 per cent the third year. The company offer includes a cost of living adjustment equal to the amount by which inflation exceeds nine per cent, but to a maximum of three percentage points.
  A flight attendant with seven years’ experience earns $21.56 an hour for actual time in the air. The contract offer would have brought that to almost $30 by 1982.
  Le Blanc pointed out that attendants can do 16 hours’ work, but get paid for only the nine hours a flight is in the air.
  The failure of negotiations with their flight attendants is only one of the union problems facing Air Canada. The Canadian Air Line Employees Association recently rejected a contract offer, and the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association is also in negotiation.
Air Canada attendants want parity with CP Air. “Assuming that CP will get 12 per cent in their first year, we need 17,” said Le Blanc.
The company is not prepared to improve on its first-year offer of 12 per cent unless the union agrees to more than a twoyear contract.
While the union negotiating committee would not discuss safety Thursday, it reflects union concerns that there are not enough attendants to man the safety exits on planes.
Air Canada spokesman Brock Stewart said the company would not operate a flight which did not meet federal safety standards.
Le Blanc said the stalemate leaves Air Canada with no
choice but to resort to what he called “war measures.”
To avoid shutting the airline down completely, ground staff and supervisory personnel must be trained to substitute for cabin crews.
“They can’t be trained overnight,” said a company source, who said that even if a strike isn’t called, the price tag for such training, including transportation and accommodations in Montreal, could reach $1 million.
A decision on whether to begin training ground staff must be made immediately, although Air Canada would not confirm such plans are in the works.
Stewart confirmed that the airline has that option, but "we have not initiated training.”
'FAIR AND JUST'
Teachers get 12.5 per cent
 TODAY
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Index
Bridge...............................28
Business........................8-10
 Bombeck column...........24
 City, B.C.......2,3,6,12,43-45
Classified....................25-32
Comics..............................20
Crossword.......................27
Editorial.............................4
 Entertainment...........20-23
Family.........................48,47
 Horoscopes................58,59
International.....................5
Movies.........................22,23
National.............................7
 Real Estate section .. 32-41
Religion............................34
Hport*.......................... 13-17
Wenzel column.................6
 •	Overheard at a gas pump recently: “If the price keeps going up, it will be as high per litre as it was for a gallon, when I first started to drive in the 50s.”
 •	A public meeting for residents near Northwest Paving’s Otway Road gravel and asphalt operation will be held at city hall, 7 p.m. during the Nov. 24 regular council meeting, not Monday, Nov. 17 as previously reported. Northwest is seeking a one-year ex tension of its operations.
 1980 goal
$225,000
. . . Queen for a day
 Gabriella Brum, an 18-year-old West German, resigned as Miss World 1980 today because she said her victory displeased her 52-year-old boyfriend. Page5.
 Today's total
$149,771
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