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today irt brief
THOUSANDS of former convicts and suspected criminals have been killed by vigilantes in Indonesia.
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HERMAN
BRAKE FAILURE is being blamed for a weekend train derailment near Medince Hat, Alta., that killed the engineer and resulted in the evacuation of hundreds. Page
STUNNING WINS by two Canadian women shocked the ski world during the weekend.	Page
A TV PIRATE has risen to riches using airplanes, couriers and mo-torscooters to beat the Italian government’s monopoly.	Page
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"Don't look like that. You'll be boasting about this for the rest of your life.”
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The
Prince George
Citizen
Sadrack says
   A heavy snowfall today is predicted to change to occasional freezing rain and snow-flurries later as temperatures slowly rise from around -3 today to zero overnight. Tuesday’s forecast calls for cloudy skies with snowflurries and temperatures ranging from 1 to -i. Sunday’s high was -7 and low -11 with 1.9 hours of sunshine. Snowfall on the weekend totalled 20.4 cm. Last year on this date the high was -1. the low -4, snowfall was 2.4
 cm and there was no sunshine. Sunset today is at 4:10 p.m. and sunrise Tuesday will be at 8:26 a.m.
35c
Monday, January 9, 1984
Chasing dream page 17
RIDLEY ISLAND
First ship gets northeast coa
 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. (CP)
—	The first shipment of coal from northeast B.C. was loaded aboard a Japanese ship Sunday at the Ridley Island coal terminal near this north coast city.
  Loading of the coal ship Shoryu Maru began late Saturday as terminal equipment was tested and run through its paces.
  A government and industry welcoming committee included B.C. Industry Minister Don Phillips. Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan. representing the federal government. and Ron Basford Northeast Coal Development co-ordinator.
  They presented the ship’s captain with gifts commemorating his inaugural visit to the new port.
  The Shoryu Maru is loading
85.000	tonnes from northeast mines. A second ship is due to arrive at the Ridley Island terminal Tuesday, with a third scheduled for the following week.
  Trains from the northeast mines of Quintette and Bullmoose will arrive at the terminal daily. However, poor weather and near flooding conditions along the route have affected train schedules, said Ridley Island terminal manager Bruce Garvie.
  The first coal from the $2.5-billion project began moving to Ridley Island in early November.
  Garvie said about 250.000 to
300.000	tonnes of coal are stock-plied at the terminal.
Hydro
accord
reached
  VANCOUVER (CP) - A tentative agreement has been reached between B.C. Hydro and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, local 213, which represents Hydro gas workers, a Hydro spokesman said Sunday.
  Details of the agreement were not released but spokesman Ron Monk said both sides are recommending acceptance of the deal.
  Monk said if the agreement is accepted it would mean Hydro now has tentative agreements with its gas workers ami with its electrical workers, local 258.
  However, agreement has yet to be reached with Hydro's office and technical workers.
  Peter McMullan, of Hydro, said the agreement was reached after 26 hours of bargaining.
  Contract talks between Hydro and the gas and technical workers unions had broken off earlier over Hydro's proposals to delete contract provisions restricting contracting out and giving the union jurisdiction over Hydro jobs.
  Hydro reached an agreement with the 2.400 electrical workers before Christmas and that contract is now being ratified. The three-year agreement calls for a 412-per-cent wage increase over the course of the contract. plus a $1,400 signing fee.
  The electrical workers remain off the job, however, because of picket lines by the gas and technical workers unions.
  The striking unions have been urging Hydro customers to discontinue payment of electrical bills — a plea that has been mostly ignored.
  McMullan said because customers continued to make monthly payments either through the mail or at department stores and banks, the unions did not exert any pressure.
   RICHES STILL : WAITING
   MONTREAL (CP) — Lottery officials across the country are preparing for another onslaught of ticket buyers who hope to win Lotto 6-49’s new main prize, expected to top $10 million.
    “1 don’t have the figures for the rest of Canada, but in Quebec we’ve already sold about $2 million worth of tickets,” Loto-Quebec spokesman Richard Camirand said Sunday.
    He said Loto-Quebec organizers huddled Sunday to find ways of making operation of the lottery smoother and they expect “the same amount of sales, maybe more,” for this week’s draw, which may surpass $10 million, depending on sales of the $1 tickets.
    A record 37,876,071 sales were made across Canada last week as people gambled once or many times on becoming a multi-millionaire before outlets closed Saturday.
    The provinces split about 30 per cent of sales in accordance with their contribution to sales. Ticket vendors can keep five per cent of sales and get an additional commission equal to one per cent of any winnings on tickets they sell.
    No one won the top prize in Saturday’s $7-million draw, the largest ever in Canada.
    The winning number combination was 1, 7, 14, 31, 41, and 13. The bo-nus number was 12.
    It was the fifth week in a row the big prize has gone unclaimed. Each possible combination had only*one chance in almost 11 million of winning the grand prize.
    There were some winners. Nine ticket-holders with five winning numbers plus the supplementary number won nearly $250,000 each, tax-free.
    And 519 people with five winning numbers won $2,100, while 34,157 got $99 for picking four winning numbers. There were 668,997 ticket-holders who won $10 for choosing three correct numbers.
   Loto-Quebec’s Camirand said technicians were already working on programming lottery computers to increase the system’s ability to accommodate the unprecedented demand.
 Mandatory
whiskers
wanted
 Prince George Jaycees have asked city council to pass an ordinance outlawing beardless men (visitors or residents) during Mardi Gras Feb. 10 to 20.
  It would not be a whisker contest, but be dubbed as ‘‘Beard Growing Days”.
 During the 10-day period. Prince George males would not be allowed on the streets without a beard.
 The Jaycees have recruited some Five Star Sheriffs to enforce the ordinance if it’s approved.
 Clean-shaven “lawbreakers” would be tracked down and fined, with revenue going to the Big Brothers and Big Sisters organizations
Afternoon in Portugal
 Giggles, shy smiles and hamming it up a bit won the crowd for Serena Gomes and Cristina Ferreira, left, and Mandy Marques and Kelsey Santos, right, when they went on stage Sunday before the more than 350 people attending the Immigrant and Multi-cultural Society’s “Afternoon in Portugal” in Vanier Hall.
bu I loti n
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Heisman Trophy winner Mike Rozier has agreed to a three-year contract with Pittsburgh Maulers of the United States Football League, a published report said today.
  The team called an afternoon news conference on the subject.
  The Pittsburgh Press reported the Maulers signed the University of Nebraska star to a guaranteed contract believed to be worth slightly more than $3 million, making him the second-highest-paid player in professional football behind Herschel Walker.
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 WASHINGTON (AP) — Rita Lavelle, a former U.S. Enviromen-tal Protection Agency official, was sentenced today to six months in prison and fined $10,000 for lying to Congress about her handling of the government’s S1.6-billion toxic waste cleanup program.
  Lavelle, 36, could have been sentenced to a maximum of 20 years and a fine of $19,000.
  U.S. District Judge Norma Johnson told Lavelle before handing down the sentence that the judge had considered “the fact that you violated your public trust ... and the fact that you cannot still admit to yourself the injury you caused...”
Citizen photos by Ric Ernst
WEST END VICE
$14 million headache
 VANCOUVER (CP) - Property values have dropped more than $14 million in an ll-blnek area of Vancouver's West End that has been plagued by street prostitution, a report prepared for the Concerned Residents of the West End says.
  The lower property values are likely to remain as long as the solicitations by male and female prostitutes are allowed to persist, says the report released today.
  Heinz Brett, the author of the report, concluded after' a two-week study the 2,950 rental suites in the 11-block area as of Dec. 1, 1983, were each worth about $4,800 less than similar units outside of the area.
  He described the $14.16-million loss in property values as a conservative conclusion.
  The area Brett studied comprises more than 14 per cent of the West End. The population numbers about 5,000.
  The current population of the West End, about 37,000, lives in about 440 apartment blocks with approximately 20,700 suites.
  Brett, a 70-year-old real estate appraiser, did the study for the residents’ group with the co-operation of his employer. Montreal Trust.
  Group co-chairman Daryl Nelson said Sunday he was pleased a report
has finally been done that deals with the economic effects prostitution has on the West End. But Nelson said he was disturbed at what the findings suggest for the area and Vancouver.
  “Fourteen million (dollars) is just an indication of the decreasing li-veability of the West End as a residential area.” Nelson said.
  ‘‘I think basically we're at a junction in the history of the West End I think, if we don't stop the problem of street prostitution soon, we may be faced with an American-stvle urban inner decay problem the likes of which we’ve never seen in this country."
  Nelson said the amount of property taxes Vancouver collects will drop if the market values continue to remain depressed because of the prostitution while more mone\ will have to be spent on social services and policing.
  He said the report will be presented to the federal committee on pornography and prostitution when it meets in Vancouver later this week.
  Brett based his study on recent sales of apartment blocks and incomes derived from the apartments and expenses. He also used data from the Vancouver land title office, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, the Rental Housing Council of B.C. and the Building Owner and
 Manager Association.
   Surveying 13 apartment blocks in the area. Brett found that some West End tenants were accosted by prostitutes while walking to and from their homes.
   Tenants experience noise between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. from honking cars, screaming and fighting, he said, adding main-floor tenants, especially those living near the rear of buildings, were subject to break-ins.
   “The result is that rents generally lag behind the rest of the West End by 10 per cent," he wrote.
   Finding that an average one-bed-room suite in the West End rented at $388 a month while a similar unit within the 11-block area rented for $345, Brett said tenants are not willing to pay as much in the affected area as they are outside it.
   However, he added, management expenses cost about two per cent more in the 11-block area because of increased upkeep and a higher ^an normal turnover rate of tenants.
   Brett said in an interview the difference in market values will continue to grow unless something is done to curtail the prostitutes.
   “The number of blocks that are affected will spread because there are only so many street corners where prostitutes can solicit their business," he said.