today in brief
25^ Wednesday, October 6, 1982
PRINCE ANDREW and an actress who once played a role in a soft porn movie are on a vacation in the Caribbean, British news sources say. Page
 CANADA’S TRADE SURPLUS is at a record level, topping $11 billion so far this year.	Page
ACCURATE PREDICTIONS for the Peace Cariboo Junior Hockey League are hard to make this season, because there’s no obvious favorite. Page
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Index
Bridge...........................19
Business.......................8,9
 City, B.C........... 3,6,7,10,12
 Classified..................16-21
Comics..........................26
 Community pages...........11
Crossword.....................18
Editorial........................ 4
 Entertainment...........26,27
Family..........................23
Horoscopes....................27
 International.................. 2
Movies..........................26
National......................... 5
Sports.......................24,25
Television......................18
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Serving Central B.C.
   CIVIC ELECTION WARMS UP
FOREST INDUSTRY KEY, BANKER SAYS
Autumn leaves
 Elaine and Terry Henderson and, right, Kimberly Yip, do what children have always done — play with the piles of leaves falling from trees this time of year. The cool air might bring thoughts of heavy
 clothes, deep snow and the smell of wood smoke drifting on neighborhood breezes, but today they have leaves — piles of them — and more to come.
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HOSPITAL BOARD ELECTION
Anti-abortionist loses
by LYNDA WILLIAMS Staff Reporter
  An anti-abortion candidate failed in a bid for one of two seats on the board of the Prince George Regional Hospital Tuesday.
  Incumbents Myron Sambad and Helen Clare kept their seats on the 10-member board with 228 and 202 votes respectively. Coalition for Life candidate Claude Bedard swung 165 votes.
  An information sheet handed out by Coalition for Life instructed society members opposed to abortion to vote only for Bedard instead of choosing two candidates.
  Bedard, who ran unsuccessfully last year, said he was not a one-issue candidate and would bring his skills as municipal deputy director of building inspection and maintenance to the role of hospital trustee.
  However, he said the fight against abortion was his first priority.
  “I stand first and foremost and without apology as a defender of unborn children,” Bedard told the assembly of nearly 400 society members.
  "The unborn are being terminated within the walls of our hospital at a rate of one every other day,” Bedard said
  Clare, a former registered nurse and six-year veteran of thc board, said she was advised not to discuss abortion, but was going to anyway.
  “Your hospital does not do abortions. Doctors do abortions. Your hospital makes its facilities available,” she said.
  Therapeutic abortion is performed at a doctor's discretion and the decision should be left to doctors, said Clare.
  She said the hospital board has two "freedoms” with regard to abortion. It must decide if the hospital will have an abortion committee and it must approve appointments of doctors to that committee.
  In her view, an abortion committee is necessary to meet the needs of the community.
  Clare is the chairman of the Quality Assurance Committee of the board.
  "What that means to me is that you can enter the hospital and expect to have a reasonable standard of care at the minimum risk," she said.
  The committee also deals with patients' complaints.
  Sambad, of Sambad Electrical Services Ltd.. was praised by fellow hospital trustee Horst Sander for his leadership role in organizing the Shriner-CKPG telethons which raised money for the hospital's sophisticated body scanner.
  In 1981, more than 500 people attended the hospital board’s annual general meeting. At that time chairman Ed Barnes and Allan Lund, running for the first time, defeated two anti-abortion candidates.
Bennett mum on B.C. vote
    VICTORIA (CP) — Premier Bill Bennett says Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed’s decision to go ahead with an election will not have any effect on his decision about a British Columbia election date.
    Bennett told reporters Tuesday the long-awaited Alberta election, which Lougheed announced today will be held Nov. 2. will have no influence on his decision.
    "I never ruled one in. so it’s not a matter of ruling one out when you haven't ruled one in," Bennett said. "My mind is with running thc province and is not with elections."
    He said he will make no comment on an election in B.C. "until such a time as it’s timely to ask for a renewed mandate or some other circumstances would make an election important to the province."
    Bennett said that the climate now is right for strong government.
    He said his party is strong and that is has never been better organized.
    "And that’s assisting the government in providing strong leadership because it doesn't open the option for groups who may be politically motivated to challenge the government at this time.”
    Bennett said he was not informed ahead of time of lougheed's decision, and does not expect the outcome there to give any indication on how he would fare in B.C.
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  VANCOUVER (CP) - British Columbia will lead Canada out of the recession next year and even surpass the protected U.S. economic growth rate for 1984, the Royal Bank of Canada’s western chief predicted Tuesday.
   The turnaround will start with B.C.’s resource sector, primarily the forest industry, said John Cleghorn, a senior vice-president and general manager of the Royal.
   "That’s because of one of those Alice-through-the-looking-glass laws of economics. which says that the world works equally well in the reverse,” Cleghorn told the National Hardwood Lumber Association’s annual convention.
   "Thus, producers of basic commodities, such as lumber, are among thc hardest hit by recession. But they also are among the most resilient in a recovery."
   Cleghorn predicted the B.C. economic growth rate in 1983 would be the same as the 2.7 per cent projected for the U.S. and would be even stronger than the three per cent projected for the U.S. in 1984.
   There also are some positive signs for the country as a whole, he said, such as a declining ratio of inventories to shipments, small but encouraging drops in various inflation measures and declining interest rates.
   I’m not suggesting we can or should turn into perennial optimists but there is room for more confidence about our immediate economic future than many people have been displaying, and there is some hard evidence that the object of our search is nearby."
  The forecast on B.C.'s economic growth, to lead the country out of the slump, is realistic, based on the assumption of a "decent rather than dramatic" increase in housing starts, he said.
   Cleghorn predicted that U.S. housing starts in 1983 should hit 1.3 million units, the number forest analysts often say is necessary to trigger rehiring in the B.C. forest industry. His projection for 1984 is 1.6 million housing starts and even higher "if the pent-up demand of baby boomers can be unleashed.”
   Short-term interest rates have dropped in recent months, he said, allowing thc U.S. bank prime rate to fall to 13.5 per cent and the Canadian prime to 15 per cent.
   "And rates should continue to ease and stimulate the mortgage market next year if, as we beleve, prohibitively high interest rates will not have to be used as a weapon to beat down North American inflation by that time."
   Cleghorn also expressed confidence that intlation in both Canada and the U.S. will be licked.
   “The transition from an inflationary climate to real economic growth, from recession to recovery, is what we’re undergoing today."
   VANCOUVER (CPI - The federal government will increase its annual contribution to reforestation programs throughout Canada to a minimum $130 million within five years, federal Environment Minister John Roberts said Tuesday.
    Roberts told the National Hardwood Lumber Association that forests must be treated as something to be farmed, rather than something to be mined.
    To accomplish this, he said, expenditures of about $650 million a year will have to be made by governments and industry during the next four or five years. Currently, about W00 million a year is spent on reforestation, about $50 million of that from the federal government.
    He said Ottawa would be prepared to extend its financial commitment if provinces increase their contribution.
    Canada’s forest renewal program, released last month, established guidelines for future federal-provincial forest agreements.
    "You have an industry which in good times furnishes the provincial and federal governments with something like $3 billion of tax revenue a year. The kinds of investments we’re talking about in reforestation are not a waste of government expenditure, but an investment in the continued health of a resource that’s important to the forest industry and to the Canadian economy.”
by BOH MILLER Staff Reporter
    Three of five incumbent aldermen say they will run again in the Nov. 2(1 civic elections.
   But the mayoral race, biggest in terms of voter interest, has not yet jelled.
   Mayor Elmer Mercier, who’s term expires 1his year, says only that he will make an announcement "soon” on his intentions. Former alderman and onetime mayoral candidate Victor Litnos-ky has announced he will run for mayor this year.
    Alderman Jack Sieb, with eight years under his belt on city council, intends to run in the aldermanic race, and both Alderman John Backhouse and Alderman George McKnight say they will seek a second term.
   Of the remaining incumbents both Alderman Richard Godfrey and Alderman Stuart Ross remain undecided at this point whether they will run again. Both men have served four years each as aldermen.
    While it’s been no secret that Sieb and Backhouse would stand for another term, McKnight announced he would run again during a telephone interview with The Citizen on Tuesday.
    McKnight said in the past year important strides have been made in the city and he wants one more term to see some of them through the completion.
    McKnight said in the coming year it’s important to keep city operating costs down and at the same time keep as many people working as possible. In general, the city must be kept “moving” and a climate for economic opportunity must be encouarged.
    Sieb said the city has been through IS months of tough times and there is probably another six months to a year of the same thing in store.
    The city needs stability and people to run it who have a backlog of information to make rational decisions during this period, he said.
   Backhouse said that with thc economy the way it is experience on city council will be very important this year. Having served two years on council he has gone through the learning process and feels he has a great deal to offer the city because of the experience he’s gained.
   Godfrey said he is "leaning toward running again" but really hasn’t decided whether he will seek another term, while Ross said he will decide whetherto ru.i again in the next week or so.
    Of three former aldermen defeated at the polls during last fall’s civic elections, only Monica Becott said she Mill not run for office this year.
   Becott said the thought of running again is tempting, but she is preoccupied with her work as president of the Towncenter Business Association.
    Art Stauhle said he is seriously considering running for council this year, but won’t make up his mind until nomination day, Oct. 25.
   Former alderman Denise Goodkey was not available for comment.
   During last fall's election Becott. Stauhle and Goodkey were in favor of downtown redevelopment proposed by Cadillac-Fairview and were defeated at the polls by a five-man slate of candidates who supported Woodward’s expansion instead.
Tylenol to go behind counter
   GUELPH, Ont. (CP) — Johnson and Johnson Inc. pharmaceutical company has asked Canadian druggists to sell Tylenol capsules from the dispensary rather than from self selection areas of their stores.
    Paul D. Mitchell. Johnson and Johnson general manager, said in a news release today that the move was being made despite the absence of any problem in Canada with thc capsules.
    Tylenol capsules with cyanide poison in them have claimed seven lives in the Chicago area and some with strychnine in them have been found in California.
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Weather
   Cross your fingers if you’re a non-skier — there’s no snow in the forecast. Instead, the highs for Thursday should reach 10 and the mercury is expected to dip to 3 with unsettled weather continuing and the chance1 of afternoon thu showers.
   The high Tuesday was 11 and the low a balmy 8—due to the cloud cover and warm south winds.
   Last year on this date the high was 11 and the low 4 with 2.6 mm of rain.
   Sunset today is 6:36 p.m. and the blazing ball will rise again at 6:23 a.m.
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