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today in brief
 SHARK HUNTERS off the coast of Florida became the hunted when they were tossed into waters red with the blood of shark bait.	Page
EVENING shopping on weekdays is an idea not favored by the majority of Prince George merchants surveyed by The Citizen.	Page
 HE’S QUIET and he’s winning — he’s the new-look John McEnroe.	Page
JOHN TURNER is Canada’s new prime minister, but he is taking over a nation beset by old economic problems. Page
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Index
Ann Landers.............6
Bridge..................20
Business.............26*27
City, B.C.............3,7,9
 Classified............17-22
Comics.................28
Crossword..............19
Editorial.................4
 Entertainment..........28
Family ..................6
Horoscopes.............20
 International.............2
Movies..................28
National.................5
Sports................13-16
Television ..............19
 Is it over? Page 16
Citizen
NINE KILLED IN FIERY PLANE CRASH
Sadrack says
  Weather predictions are for isolated evening showers and cloudy skies overnight with a high of 18 and a low near 7.
  There will be sunny periods Wednesday morning, with clouds and showers in the afternoon. The high will be about 18 and the low about 7.
  The high Monday was 19 and the low was 5, with no precipitation and 12.5 hours of sunshine.
   On this date last year the high was 20 and the low was 12. There were 0.3 millimetres of rain
 and 5.2 hours of sunshine.
  The sunset today will be at 9:44 p.m. and sunrise Wednesday will be at 4:46 a.m.
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Tuesday, July 3, 1984
'No way anyone could survive
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An analysis by BEN TIERNEY Southam News
 VANCOUVER - British Columbia is once more without representation in the federal cabinet, but Liberals on the West Coast are delighted.
 Prime Minister John Turner dropped B.C. Senator Jack Austin from his cabinet Saturday but within hours of doing so he had announced that he would personally seek election in the province.
 And that, B.C. Liberals believe, could mean nothing less than a massive turnaround for the party.
  “I’m absolutely delighted with the announcement," said Austin. “It’s a huge step towards credibility for the party in British Columbia.
 “Now there is going to be a very much larger, and much more aggressive Liberal presence in this province. It’s taking place at last, and I welcome it.”
  In addition to seeking seat in British Columbia, Turner intends to open a branch of the prime minister’s office in Vancouver to underline his stated commitment to the West.
  The new office will, according to Liberal sources, combine the functions of a constituency office and "Pacific region branch of the prime minister’s office."
  But the delight among Liberals on the West Coast is largely conditional on Turner calling a general election soon — very soon.
  As the province’s other high profile senator, Ray Perrault, put it: "I don’t think we have to worry about having nobody in the cabinet because there is probably going to be an election so soon that these people appointed today are going to be on a caretaker basis. If this cabinet was going to be operating two years from now that would be quite a different matter. . ."
 Only two Liberal candidates have been nominated in B.C. so far, but Liberal organizers have been waiting for months for word that Turner would run in the province and thus give them something extra to attract top-of-the-line candidates.
 Some reasonably high-profile municipal politicians are said to be on the Liberal list of potential candidates. including the mayors of Penticton, Surrey and New Westminister.
  Turner is expected to seek his seat in Capilano, with party president Iona Campagnolo. who finally announced Saturday that she would be a candidate, contesting the next door constituency of North Vancouver Burnaby.
  But a group within the B.C. Liberal Party wants Turner un in North Vancouver Burnaby, with Campagnolo moving over to the c Vancouver KingswCapilano is a middle-to-up-per-middle class constituency and there is some concern that in running there Turner might encourage further suggestions that he is not really at home with ordinary Canadians. North Vancouver Burnaby is, on the other hand, a constituency of three-bedroom bungalows.
 Those who favor a Turner candidacy in North Vancouver-Burnaby also suggest a Campagnolo candidacy in Vancouver Kingsway would be a signal to B.C. voters that the party is going after both Conservatives and new Democrats in its effort to re-establish itself in B.C.
  “It would." said one Liberal insider, “be like using two elbows, instead of just one. to get ourselves back in here."
CABINET LIST, PAGE 5
Members of the Circuit Breakers, a Prince George Dance break group committed to the current break dancing fad, impressed the audience with routines during a Canada
            LOTTERY FRAUD HERE
Now it's 'stick-cmd-win'
Pulp contract okayed, but nobody's cheering
  B.C.’s pulp and paper workers have ratified a new contract after more than 16 months of stormy contract talks.
  During a two-week vote, the 13,000 members of the Canadian Paper-workers Union and Pulp. Paper and Woodworkers of Canada voted 64 per cent in favor of the three-year contract offer.
  In Prince George, 69 per cent of the CPU members at Northwood Pulp and Timber voted against the contract while 51 per cent of the PPWC members at Prince George Pulp and Paper and Intercontinental Pulp voted in favor.
  CPU leader Art Gruntman said the low yes vote reflected members’ discontent over a two-month lockout and subsequent back-to-work order by the B.C. government.
  The contract is similar to the one ratified six months ago by the International Woodworkers of America, which included no increase the first year, four per cent the second and 4.5 the third.
  The industry was shut for nine weeks earlier this year during an eight-week lockout and one-week strike, which was ended by the government legislation.
  During the shutdown, each worker lost about $6,000 while the industry lost about $552 million in sales.
  The hourly base rate for workers increases about 51 cents this week because the second-year wage increase took effect Sunday. The old contract expired June 30. 1983.
  For the Northwood workers, the major stumbling block was a provision that would require some workers to go to work between two and four hours early after a statutory holidays to warm up major equipment, said Tony Baratta, president of Local 609 president, who was against the offer. This means certain employees would start work between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. in preparation for the morning shift which starts at 8 a.m., he explained.
  Many members were also not happy with the wage offer, he added.
  About 5,000 pulp workers in Ontario recently ratified a three-year offer that included 2.5 per cent the first year, four per cent the second and five per cent the third The current hourly base rate for CPU members in Ontario is $12.52, and the wage gap between east and west will be closed to about eight cents.
by CARLA WILSON Staff reporter
 Police are warning ticket vendors and banks to doublecheck winning Western Canada Lottery Foundation tickets in case they have been tampered with.
  In the past three weeks, teenagers have made off with $300 from a local vendor by falsifying numbers on a ticket.
  The tickets are the “scratch and win” type. Customers buy a ticket, scratch six spaces and if the same number appears three times, then they win that amount of money.
 But local entrepreneurs, using tickets with only two similar numbers, have been gluing a matching number on top of a number that doesn’t match, says RCMP Const. Paul Burggerman.
 Burggerman says a local vendor was checking winning tickets before submitting them to the foundation office in Vancouver when he noticed three of the tickets had an extra $100 stuck on the ticket. The vendor notified police this weekend.
  Police are aware of another instance in a bank where someone tried to cash a “winning” ticket. When a bank employee became suspicious, the teenager grabbed the ticket and ran out of the bank.
 According to Burggermann, falsifying the ticket and collecting money is committing fraud, a criminal offence.
  He is planning to notify the foundation’s Vancouver office of the frauds in case this is happening elsewhere.
       by Canadian Press PORT HARDY - A week-long fishing trip ended in death for eight Spokane, Wash., men and a Comox, B.C., pilot when their twin-engined aircraft crashed into the runway during takeoff Monday.
  A man who saw the crash said the Beechcraft 18 aircraft was about 30 metres off the runway when it appeared to stall, went into a steep left turn and crashed to the ground.
  The witness, who asked not to be identified, said the plane then burst into flames.
  The plane was reported to have been heavily loaded with passengers, luggage and fishing equipment and the fact that it veered left has caused speculation that one engine may have failed.
  Peter Spencer, Port JJardy district fire chief, said in a telephone interview the airport’s fire truck was on the scene immediately and quickly put out the flames hut no one could be saved.
  “There was no way anyone could survive,” said Cpl. Doug Jonson of the Port Hardy RCMP detachment.
  Six bodies were pulled from the wreckage. Two other bodies were trapped in the pilot and co-pilot seats by the plane’s nose, Spencer said.
  “It was really bad," he said. “The plane flipped over and the nose was bent back over the pilot’s compartment.”
  Dead are pilot Wayne Denny, 42. the president of Coval Air the company whose aircraft had been chartered to take the passengers from Port Hardy to Spokane, and passengers Joseph Romane, James J. Obde, Donald L. Johnston, Cliff N. Robinson, William M. Smith, John
A.	Ross, Gordon Olson and Ronald Hardenbrook, all of the Spokane area.
  Harvey Hahn, operations manager for Coval Air, a charter company based in Campbell River. B.C., said the plane was hired by the Painter’s Lodge fishing resort in Campbell River. It was headed for Spokane from Port Hardy.
  The eight passengers had just arrived in Port Hardy from Rivers Inlet. 100 kilometres to the north, on an Air B.C. floatplane.
   RCMP Const. Paul BurgKermann shows a piece of paper with $100 on it that was jjlued to a Western Canada Lottery Foundation ticket and used to defraud a local ticket-seller.
Citizen photo by Dave Milne
 Day performance at Fort George Park. Here, Bill Earle makes an arch so Dexter Tabora can “dance" under on his stomach. Folkfest photo coverage, page 9.
Plane mishap to be probed
  Timothy Wall. 25. of Burnaby, is in satisfactory condition in Fort St. John hospital following a light-air-craft accident Monday evening.
  The accident occurred near Mile 132 of the Alaska Highway, about 144 kilometres north of Fort St. John. Wall was taken to hospital by helicopter.
  RCMP and the Ministry of Transport are investigating the accident. Police are not releasing any other details.
Citizen photo by Dave Milne
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