today in brief
A RULING upholding “last hired, first fired” policies has driven a wedge between labor and civil rights leaders in the U.S.	Page
 AIRLINE regulations have been relaxed even further, meaning cheaper flights might be available to the public.	Page
SHERLOCK HOLMES remains as popular today as he was when he first appeared in foggy London 100 years ago. Page
ANOTHER TITLE has been won by the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association.
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KERMAN
"I thought we were supposed to go on a world cruise when you retired.''
Index                         
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City, B.C.....3,6,7,25,30,32  
                              
                              
  Crossword..... .........18  
Editorial....... ..........4  
   Entertainment ......10-12  
                              
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Sadrack says
   Weather conditions remain much the same as they have been but with a clearing trend for Thursday: some clouds, showers and chances for thundershowers this afternoon, tapering to evening showers or thundershowers but mostly clear and sunny with cloudy periods Thursday.
   Chances for precipitation are: 40 per cent this afternoon, 30 overnight and 10 Thursday.
   The predicted high today is 25, the overnight low 7 and the high Thursday 26.
   Sunset tonight is at 9:44 p.m. and Sunrise Thursday at 4:39 a.m.
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PROPOSED ALCAN SMELTER
Site choice explained
              by CAR LA WILSON Staff reporter Alcan's Kitimat smelter is big enough, and economies of scale dictate any new smelters will have to be located at a different location, say company spokesmen At a Prince George Homebuilder’s Association meeting Tuesday, Geoff Leane, an Alcan employee and member of its volunteer speakers bureau, explained why the company decided to build its new smelter near Vanderhoof and not at Kitimat where an aluminum smelter is alreay situated. Another company spokesman. Ed Sager, said there are economies of scale up to a point, but once that point is passed an operation is too big to manage effectively.
   Leane also mentioned technological differences be tween the Kitimat smelter and the proposed smelter and referred to possible problems with internal working conditions.
   Alcan has spent more than $200 million in the past few years at its Kitimat plant. Sager says. This has improved working conditions but he says the smelter “can only un prove to a point ’
   The old potlines at Kitimat emit tar fumes and the pot-lines in the new srrv ■ i will not Speaking about locating the smelters in * same area Sager said ‘‘that sort of thing would creat Iriction (among employees).”
   In addition. r ne said because the project affects the Nechako Ri\ , there was to be some kind of social pi ire to tx* paid, the residents near Vanderhoof should get some benefits, adding ‘‘in a sense they've earned those benefits.”
   Sager says thf* company had looked at potential ports on the coast but the cost was high A site near Vanderhoof offers an existing workforce, the site itself is very good for the company's needs, and there is a social and
 economic structure in place.
   In an interview with The Citizen, Wiho Papenbrock. business agent for the Canadian Association of Smelter and Allied Workers, Local I. suggested four possible reasons for Alcan choosing the Vanderhoof site instead of expanding at Kitimat. He says his union supports expansion in Kitimat.
   Papenbrock believes the major reason is that it will give Alcan some justification to divert the Nechako River II Alcan did not build its smelter in the Vanderhoof region, it would have a hard time making its whole hydro project socially acceptable to the province, he said In the union’s opinion, the company is trying to justify its power expansion
   He also speculated onstream production of the Vanderhoof smelter might coincide with a shutdown of older potlines in Kitimat. and that the Vanderhoof smelter would in some sense phase out the Kitimat smelter in the future.
   He suggests this would basically be a transfer of production, although much would depend on the market conditions for aluminum at the time. If the older potlines in Kitimat were eventually closed he believes ‘‘we'd be out of jobs here.”
   Less important factors for the site location might be: If the new smelter were located at Kitimat, Papenbrock also said the working conditions in it would be substantially better than at the old smelter and the company would ‘obviously have to have compensation for the different working conditions." He suggested Alcan could avoid this by building a smelter a greater distance away from the old smelter.
   Finally, the company has a chance to avoid union certification if the smelter is located far enough away from Kitimat. he said
LEADERSHIP CONVENTION
pla kicks off Liberal show
by Canadian Press
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Trudeau helped kick off the Liberal leadership convention today by being one of the first of an expected 3,600 delegates to register for the four days of hoopla and politics.
  Television cameramen bulldozed their way through lineups of delegates, alternates and observers, knocking over tables and trampling bystanders as they surrounded the departing leader to watch him sign the registration forms.
  A gang of supporters of Energy Minister Jean Chretien, one of the leading contenders for Trudeau's job. led applause for the prime minister as he entered the registration hall.
  ‘‘Trudeau, Trudeau, Trudeau.” chanted the Chretien supporters in their red and white nylon jackets.
  Trudeau was accompanied by the convention's two co-chairmen. Liberal MP Reini Bujold and Iona Campagno-lo, national party president.
  Bujold said in an interview he had just left a meeting with representatives of the seven candidates and none gave any indication of dropping out before the Saturday balloting.
  Chretien registered soon after Trudeau.
  “I'm doing fine,” Chretien told reporters.
  ‘‘I think we’ve got good momentum” going into the convention.
Chretien pledged to continue Trudeau's initiative — as
  made public Tuesday in a letter to Ontario Pr^mitr William Davis — to attempt to persuade Ontario to adopt official bilingualism in the Constitution.
  Another early bird to register at the Ottawa Civic Centre was Mitchell Sharp, former cabinet minister and leadership candidate in 1968.
  Sharp looked somewhat wistful as he reminisced about the 1968 convention. He dropped out just days before the voting and swung his support to Trudeau.
  Chretien had supported Sharp in 1968 and Sharp is returning the favor.
  ‘‘I think it's going to be close,” Sharp said, referring to Chretien and John Turner, the widely-acknowledged fron-trunner.
  “I think there will be big change in the style of government, regardless of who wins.”
  Turner has pledged to run a more conciliatory government, with fewer federal-provincial feuds than there were under Trudeau
  Chretien has vowed to run a more people-oriented government.
  Convention activities begin in earnest Thursday.
  The candidates are Turner. Chretien. Economic Devei opment Minister Donald Johnston. Indian Affairs Mini; ter John Munro. Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan, Employment Minister John Roberts and Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan.
LOGGERS PUSH FOR CHANGES
Tree farm ideas lauded
by HOB ROWLANDS Staff reporter
   The Central Interior Logging Association is pleased that Forests Minister Tom Waterland has recommended changes to Canfor’s proposed Tree Farm Licence in the Peace River region.
   The Prince George-based loggers’ organization has been one of the the most vocal opponents of the government’s plan to create new Tree Farm Licences in the Interior.
   The CILA and the British Columbia Independent Logging Association have gone to Victoria to demand changes, organized meetings and sought support from other groups in opposing TFLs.
   Frank Drougel, general manager of the Central Interior Logging Association. says the group is still opposed to the tenure, but he told Forests Minister Tom Waterland at a public meeting in Prince George Tuesday that “your recommendations concerning Canfor are favorably received.”
   The meetmg was a prelude to public hearings in Prince George next week for Dunkley Lumber’s proposed Tree Farm Licence south of the city. Hearings will also be held in Quesnei for West Fraser Mills’ proposed TFL.
   Waterland held the meeting to ensure the public understands TFLs, which are relatively uncommon in the Central Interior. New Tree Farm Licences will also be very different for at least one of the companies if Waterland’s recommendations are accepted.
   Under the minister’s proposals, Canfor would pay most reforestation costs on its own, loggers and small companies in the Small Business Program could harvest timber on the TFL and at least 90 per cent of logging would be done by independent contractors.
   The Fraser-George Regional District supports Tree Farm Licences as a way of improving forest management. but chairman Art Stauble said the district is concerned the ministry of forests could issue a TFL without considering the impact on other operators in the Prince George Timber Supply Area
   A Tree Farm Licence is different from other forest tenures because it is based on area instead of a volume of timber. If one company is granted a TFL. ihe others will have to go elsewhere.
   One problem in the Prince George area is that Balfour Forest Products has logging operations near Dunkley Lumber's proposed TFL. but neither
 the company nor the forest service knows if logging can proceed in one of the alternate areas, the remote Takla Lake and Sustut regions about 300 kilometres northwest of Prince George.
   These places are inaccessible because the British Columbia Railway was closed west of Fort St. James last year. Because of low lumber prices, the forest industry cannot pay the estimated $30 to $35 million needed to repair the line nor can it pay operating costs.
   A subsidy proposal will be presented to cabinet and the forest service won’t know what will happen in the region until a decision is made.
   Waterland admitted the ministry hasn’t conducted any detailed study about TFLs, but he added the forest service is proceeding slowly and isn't doing enough to over-commit timber supply.
   Companies should try to resolve the matter among themselves, "but a serious conflict would be one reason for a Tree Farm Licence not to proceed," he said.
   However, Waterland agreed with Stauble’s suggestion that that notices should have been mailed to all
 I
 property owners near Dunkley’s proposed TFL.
   Stauble said the ministry should do more to clarify its policies and hi suggested other government agen cies should be at the hearings to re ceive submissions from variou> groups. He also said the ministry should do more to protect indepent ent logging contractors
   Howard Lloyd. Victoria represent ative for the British Columbia Ind< pendent Logging Association, said the group is recommending that companies receive just 30 to 50 pc: cent of the Tree Farm Licence for now and get the rest in 10 years.
   Forests east of Prince George have been hit by a massive beetle attack and Lloyd indicated and flexibility is needed to get more operators into the area.
   Because no competing bids from other companies are being considered at the hearings. Lloyd said that granting a portion of a TFL would give the minis try of forests a chance to measuie the company’s performance.
   Waterland told Lloyd to make spe cific recommendations at public hearings next week and the ministry will consider it later.
A STRIKING DISPLAY
 Northern B.C. got a big charge out of the series of thunderstorms that passed over the area Tuesday.
 Lightning bolts — 2.737 of them — struck the region between 12:45 p.m. and midnight Tuesday, says Russ Cozens, the Prince George fire duty officer for the Ministry of Forests.
 The ministry has a computerized system that keeps track of all lightning strikes in B.C. to warn the forestry service of possible fires.
 The computer frequently produces maps with the locations of the lightning strikes.
  ‘‘It looks like a shotgun blast hit the region,” Co, in.; said of the most recent map.
  Several parts of the region received the brunt of the lightning, including Tumbler Ridge, and the area between Fort St John and Fort Nelson and the west side of the Williston Reservoir and Carp Lake.
 No lightning apparently hit Prince George even though several flashes jumped between clouds.
 The lightning is not expected to cause any forest fires on the west side of the Rockies where the forest fire hazard rating is low to moderate, but air patrols where scheduled to fly over parts of the Peace River area this afternoon which has a moderate rating, he added
 Eighty-four forest fires have broken out in Northern B.C this year, down from most years because of cool and wet weather
 The only major fire of the year occured along the Yukon border and was believed to have been caused by lightning
Citizen photo by Dave Milne
                      Assuming the Darwinion theory presupposes some kind of progress in the evolution of man, followers of Darwin and perhaps parents and educators might find the behavior of this and other Grade 12 students a little regressive as Me Tarzan! they jump from trees to celebrate 12 years of development. Or perhaps they’re celebrating being fit enough to survive 12 years of development and progress. More likely the reason the grads were jumping from Fort George Park trees into the Fraser lliver was that it’s screamin' good fun. And cool.