LIQUOR VEND OR FLOWN IN
Thirst sparks crucial airlift
   WHISTLER, B.C. (CP) —Washed out roads and soggy ski slopes were one thing but a locked liquor store was quite another matter for scores of frustrated skiers here.
   With snow conditions so poor, many skiers decided to do the next best thing — bend their elbows.
   But after a long lineup formed outside the B.C. government liquor store Saturday morning in this ski resort 120
 kilometres north of Vancouver, skiers were told that manager Dennis Lemarche was at his home in nearby Pemberton.
   He was cut off by the flooding which ravaged southwestern B.C. over the Christmas weekend, and no one else could open the store.
   Within minutes the skiers took up a collection, chartered a helicopter, and
  sent it off to fetch Lemarche.
  His arrival was met with cheers from happy skiers.
  Once sales were completed, celebrations began, then went on. . . and on. . . and on.
  After spending Saturday and Sunday with the partying skiers. Lemarche was able to return home to Pemberton on Monday night.
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 Tuesday. December 30,1980	Prince George, British Columbia
LOCAL MILLS AFFECTED
BCR line damage
nudges $1 million
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by AL IRWIN Citizen Staff Reporter
Flood damage to the B.C. Rail line is estimated between $850,000 and $1 million, a railway spokesman said today.
   Hugh Armstrong. BCR public relations officer said engineering studies conducted Monday indicate the line can be opened by Jan. 24.
    There were a total of 22 washouts, caused by extensive flooding Saturday and Sunday, along the rail line between Squamish and Lillooet. Armstrong said 12 of the washouts have already been repaired.
   He said an automatic reciprocal arrangement with the Canadian National Railway will permit Prince George and area shipments of lumber and pulp, destined for Vancouver on the BCR, to be rerouted to the CN as soon as that rail line is open.
    CN officials estimate flood damage to their rail line through the Fraser Canyon will be repaired within a week or 10 days.
   Armstrong said he won’t know until Wednesday the effects on BCR trainmen and shop workers employment, but he said at this time of year, staff strength is normally low.
   Meanwhile, a local BCR official says the railway closure will mean a hardship for local mills, but not a disaster, says a BCR official.
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Flooding: Financial aid slated
   VICTORIA (CP) - Financial relief is being prepared for people whose homes and farms were damaged by rain-swollen rivers that ravaged the southwestern part of B.C. during the Christmas holiday.
    Civil servants were putting together estimates of damage in the Squamish, Brackendale and Cheakamus area, 50 kilometres north of Vancouver, and Hope and Princeton, 120 and 160 kilometres east of Vancouver.
   The cabinet was scheduled to meet today to formally approve the aid program.
   At the same time, federal authorities are gearing up their end of the program.
   Senator Ray Perrault, the government leader in the Senate and B.C.’s sole cabinet minister, was to tour the flood-damaged parts of Squamish today with Fred Cooper, federal emergency planning director, ultimately responsible for federal aid money contributed in B.C.
   The province must pay the first $1 per capita, or $2.5 million in aid. Then the provincial and federal governments split the next S2 per capita or $5 million and the federal government pays 75 per cent of the next $5 per capita or $12 million.
Space
shuttle
readied
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AIM - Bolted nose-up across a huge crawler-transporter, America’s first space shuttle was mounted on its launch pad Monday for final tests before its maiden flight to space and back next year.
   The shuttle’s five-kilometre trip to launch pad 39A took about eight hours, with the transporter crawling along a rock-covered road.
  Once there, a snag developed in transferring the mobile launching platform, to which the shuttle was attached, on to the pad. A spokesman said a small steel access tower on the pad’s surface had to be cut away. The entire operation was completed at 8 05 p.m. EST.
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 Ron Keukomm. BCR’s senior sales representative in Prince George, said Monday he did not expect his sawmill customers to have to stockpile, since the greatest percentage of Prince George lumber goes to eastern or U.S. markets, via the Canadian National Railway east to Edmonton.
    That line was not affected by flooding.
    Until the BCR is open, commodities, including produce, normally shipped from the coast to Prince George by piggy-back on the railway, will be shipped by road says BCR assistant manager Leon Bolio.
    Bolio says during the disrupted service, all less-than-carload lots will be cancelled and lumber from the Prince George area normally shipped by BCR will be rerouted to the CNR.
   Neukomm said some exported lumber and lumber destined for west coast U.S. markets will be held up. but only until the CN line is open Neukomm said the customers most affected will be the three local pulp mills.
   Prince George Pulp and Paper Ltd. and Intercontinental Pulp Co. Ltd. will be able to continue operations until Jan 7 or 8 by stockpiling in warehouses and in cars now at the mills, says spokesman Doug Quinn ‘'Hopefully by that time CN will be ready to go.”
    But the problem will not end there.
    “The problem then will be getting those rail cars back,” said Quinn.
   At Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd , it is too early to predict if layoffs will be necessary.
    Les Waldie, spokesman for the company, says the rail washouts are definitely a serious matter, but there is no immediate danger of shutting down.
   The immediate concern is meeting commitments to export customers, who buy about 20 per cent of Northwood’s products. The balance is shipped east on CN rail lines still open.
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New deck
 The water is pretty much the same, but the deck is $50,000 nicer, Nadina Gunnarson discovers at the Four Seasons Pool. She got a sneak preview of the new decking, a non-slip quarry tile, which was installed during closure of the pool since Dec. 1. The pool reopens Jan. 5.
RUSSIAN ROULETTE SCENES
Film blamed for 15 deaths
  WASHINGTON (Reuteri -Fifteen Americans have killed themselves this year playing Russian roulette after watching the film The Deer Hunter on television, a private group opposed to violence in television said Monday.
   The National Coalition on Television Violence said in a statement that the film, which includes graphic scenes of Russian roulette, should never have been shown on television.
   The movie was also shown on Canadian television.
   The group released a list of names of 15 people who it said had died playing Russian roulette during or after televi-
 sion showings of the film.
   Television stations that have screened it have also broadcast warnings to the effect that Russian roulette is a deadly game and that viewers should not confuse fantasy with reality.
   But Dr. Thomas Radecki, a psychiatirst on the group’s board of directors, said: ‘Onscreen warnings appear unsuccessful and may even further glorify risk-taking.”
   Radecki said the parents of one victim, eight-year-old John Triste of Mesa, Ariz., were exploring possible legal action against a station that showed the film.
   A group of children who saw the film in August played the dangerous game with a .38-calibre revolver and young Triste died from a bullet between the eyes, the organization said.
   Two months later John Mendoza, 24, sat in a living room watching the film in San Antonio, Tex., the antiviolence group said.
   He took up a .22-calibre revolver, pressed it to his head, said, ‘‘I’m going to do it,” and pulled the trigger The gun fired and Mendoza died in hospital, the group said.
   Radecki said his group warned television stations
 about the dangers of airing the film, but the broadcasts — and deaths — had continued.
   There were three deaths last month after broadcasts of The Deer Hunter, and a fourth person, a White House police guard, was seriously wounded, he said.
   The White House said the guard had had an accident involving a pistol, but would not comment on the question of Russian roulette.
   Nelson Price, a spokesman for the anti-violence group, charged broadcasters with “holding profits over public interest
$110 FOR EVERY PERSON
More spent on arms than health
Police name crash victim
  100 MILE HOUSE (CP) -The man killed in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 97 north of this interior B.C. community Christmas Eve was identified Monday as Michael Alan Collier. 26, of Prince George. Collier’s wife. Patricia, and their two-year-old son. Jeremy, were injured in the crash and are in hospital in Kamloops RCMP said Collier’s car collided with a fuel truck. The truck driver was not hurt.
  WASHINGTON (CP) - The world spends more on weapons of war than on public health care, the U.S. Arms-Control Agency reported Monday, but the share of global wealth devoted to military budgets is declining.
   Governments of the 117 poorer countries covered in the survey together spend proportionately more of their income on armies and weaponry than the 28 richest — more than on public health and education combined
   In fact, the poorer countries have been spending more money buying arms from the United States and the Soviet Union than they receive in non-milltary aid from the major powers, the study shows.
   The agency, responsible for seeking arms-control and disarmament treaties, estimated annual global military spending at present is "about $500 billion and rising" the equivalent of
 about $110 for every person on earth.
   However, the survey of world military expenditures for the 10 years from 1969 through 1978 shows that the annual proportion of total productive wealth spent on arms and armies has declined to $5 40 out of every $100 of wealth from $6.70 a decade earlier
   By comparison, the share of annual world income spent by all governments on health care has risen to $3 from $2.10 and on public education to $5 30 from $4 80 out of every $100 in the 10 years This excludes non-government spending on health and education.
   Among the 117 developing countries, the share of every $100 of their wealth devoted to military budgets is $5 50, to public health $1 20 and to education $3 60
   For the 28 rich industrial countries North America. Europe, Japan, Aus-
 tralia and New Zealand — the comparable figures are $5.30 for military budgets, $3.60 for public health and $5 80 for education.
   The survey shows Canada’s military spending proportionately low at $2 for ever> $100 of national wealth in 1978, down from $2 40 a decade earlier ana less than half the $4 30 average for Canada's 14 NATO allies The latest proportions shown for spending in Canada on public health are $4 40, up from $3 40 a decade earlier, and for public education $8, down from $8 30 Canada’s spending on arms and its armed forces also is relatively low per head of population — $174 in 1978 compared to $460 in the United States. $298 in NATO as a whole and $547 in the Soviet Union — a calculation based on figures provided by the U S Central Intelligence Agency which the survey says may be slightlj over-estimated
“Operator, how do I make a longdistance call from here?"
 • The great thaw of last week showed what bus drivers are made of: en route to Vanderhoof the roads became so slippery the bus driver pulled over and waited for sand trucks. After a couple of hours he turned the bus around and returned to Prince George, where local people returned home and visitors from out-of-province were housed at the bus company’s expanse.
 » A California department of education report on television watching has a lesson for students everywhere It found that heavy TV watchers score lower on tests The Grades 6 and 12 students surveyed, as part of the state's annual standardized-testing program, found half watched two hours of TV the previous night with 20 per cent claiming they had watched more than four hours
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Sadrack says . . .
   Warm, sunny weather is predicted for today and Wednesday — so enjoy it while it’s here.
   Highs today and Wednesday will range from 6 to 9 with overnight lows in the -3 to -7 range.
   Monday was the warmest Dec. 29 ever recorded with a high of 8, compared with -4 set in 1975.
   Dec. 30, 1979 had a high of -5 and a low of -12 Sunrise today was 8:31 a.m. and sunset will be 3:56 p.m.
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