today in brief
THE CANADIAN priest expelled from Nicaragua by the Sandinis-ta government left the country denouncing “the sickness of power.” Page
A CAMPAIGN of arrests is under wav in Libya, where Colonel Khadafy is determined to snuff out opposition. Page
THE COACH of the Prince George Spruce Kings is returning next season. Page
NEW YORK City residents are renowned for their love of dogs, but a new museum may have taken things too far. Page
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The forecast for today is for a few clouds overnight. A high of 21 is expected today, with an overnight low of 8.
The skies will be mainly sunny Saturday with a high of about 23.
The high Thursday was 18 and the low was 10. There were .5 millimetres of rain and 7.2 hours of sunshine.
A year ago on this date, there were 28.2 millimetres of rain and 2.8 hours of sunshine. The high was 18 and the low was 9.
Sunset today will be at
9:37 p.m. and sunrise Saturday will be at 4:57 a.m.
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Friday, July 13, 1984
FAIR'S FUTURE UNCERTAIN
Unions set boycott as Expo deal fails
Deficit, bank rates hot election topics
by Canadian Press
Prime Minister Turner, who promised during the Liberal leadership race to cut the deficit by half in seven years, now says he is willing to let it increase if necessary.
A new Liberal government would allow the deficit to rise “if the reasons are good,” Turner told reporters in Ottawa Thursday after meeting cabinet to discuss the faltering dollar and other economic troubles.
Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Mulroney, kicking off his campaign in Toronto for the Sept. 4 election, said the latest increase in interest rates will “kill off immediately” 5,000 housing starts and 12,000 jobs.
Mulroney also tried to turn the tables on Liberals who say his campaign promises will add billions of dollars to the federal deficit.
“To hear a Liberal complaining about the cost is like a firefly complaining about the heat,” he said.
For his part, Turner accused Mulroney of inflicting “long-term pain” on taxpayers with the hope of a “short-term gain” on Sept.4 and said Mulroney is trying to turn the campaign into an “auction” and a bidding war for votes.
New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent, campaigning in Toronto’s Chinatown district with incumbent Spadina MP Dan Heap, said the rise in interest rates heralds a repeat of the recession, with higher food prices and less investment by small business.
Turner heads West for the weekend to campaign. He is scheduled to be in Edmonton for the first meeting of the Liberals’ internal western and northern council. He then flies to Vancouver Saturday where he is expected to announce which riding he will contest in the election.
Mulroney flies to his home town of Baie-Comeau Saturday to meet party organizers in the riding of Manicouagan, the strongest indication yet he plans to run in the sprawling riding on the north snore of tne St. Lawrence River.
Turner also suggested that reports of the estimated costs of Mulroney’s campaign promises may have weakened confidence in the Canadian economy and contributed to the record decline this week of the Canadian dollar compared to U.S. currency. The dollar was trading at about 75 cents U.S. Thursday.
Mulroney has denied reports his promises package will cost $20 billion over five years, but also declined again to say how much the platform will cost.
Conservative defence critic Harvie Andre pledged that a Tory government would increase defence spending by as much as 50 per cent over the rate now approved by the Liberal government.
In other campaign developments Thursday:
• Liberal MP Andre Maltais, who holds the Manicouagan riding where Mulroney is expected to run, said he is in “absolutely no danger” of losing to the Tory leader. Maltais, who won in the 1980 election by more than 16,000 votes, said Liberal polls in the riding show he has a lead over Mulroney, but he declined to give specific figures.
• Broadbent won the NDP nomination for the Oshawa riding at a meeting attended by about 100 people.
• In Vancouver, a Liberal party source confirmed that party president Iona Campagnolo will contest the riding of North Vancou-ver-Burnaby, now held by Conservative Chuck Cook.
• Broadbent continued to push for a leaders’ debate, saying he would prefer Mulroney’s proposal for regional debates.
• Speculation increased that Marc Lalonde is ready to pack it in but Turner said the veteran cabinet minister assured him he will stay on as finance minister until the election.
• Turner said Canada apologized to Portugal for the way the government announced the patronage appointment of a new ambassador, but former Liberal MP Bryce Mackasey remains “our candidate.”
MONSTER HAILSTONES
'Like end of world'
MUNICH, West Germany (AP) — Hailstones the size of tennis balls, high winds and torrential rain pounded the Munich area Thursday night, injuring at least 300 people and causing millions of dollars worth of damage, police said.
A 54-year-old man was stricken by a fatal heart attack when a hailstone shattered a window in his house, the fire department said.
The Red Cross said most of the injured in the storm were hit by hailstones or by flying glass from broken windows. Car crashes blamed on the storm also caused some injuries, police said.
The barrage of ice balls began about 8 p.m. Thursday. Within minutes, the temperature plunged to 16
degrees Celsius from 27 in the downtown area of the Bavarian state capital as hailstones smashed windows of buildings, cars and buses and clogged parts of the city’s drainage system.
“It was like the end of the world,” said one man who was caught in the hailstorm. “The sky paled, then got very dark. As the first chunks of ice fell like granite from heaven, people fled in panic to house entrances and other overhangs.”
The 15-minute hailstorm was followed by two hours of “hurricane force” winds and heavy rain that flooded streets and hampered 70 ambulances carrying injured to hospitals, a police spokesman said.
by Canadian Press VANCOUVER - A plan ensuring labor peace at Expo 86 caved in Thursday, leaving the fair’s future again in doubt and further turiAoil at its site almost a certainty.
Leaders in the unionized construction sector responded swiftly to an announcement by Expo chairman Jim Pattison that non-union workers on the site would not be paid union wages — a union demand that was essential if labor strife at the project was to be eliminated.
The latest snag comes nearly three months after Premier Bill Bennett’s dramatic announcement that despite all the labor uncertainty surrounding construction of the transportation nnd communications extravaganza, the fair would go ahead.
Roy Gautier, president of the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council, said Thursday union workers would boycott the fair.
Gautier would not be specific, but said the boycott could entail refusing to work on the site, attend the fair or buy lottery tickets which are helping finance it. He said discussions will take place with the powerful 2f)0.000-member B.C. Federation of Labor about the boycott.
But no union workers will be hauled off the site immediately, he said.
Unions had insisted there would be no disruptions on the site only if non-union firms were paid union scale, and two weeks ago, a tentative agreement on that basis was worked out between Expo management and the building trades council. Union rate for carpenters is $18.73 an hour.
That deal was scuttled when the Expo board refused to apply the terms retroactively to a contract awarded to high-profile non-union contractor J. C. Kerkhoff and Sons Ltd.
Since then, unionized ironworkers, crane operators and some carpenters have been on and off the job, protesting the presence of Kerkhoff on the site.
Pattison said that since the collapse of the tentative agreement, non-union contractors formed a powerful coalition and convinced Expo they could build the entire site themselves if necessary, but insisted, and Expo agreed, that they not be forced to pay union scales.
Non-union firms now will only be required to pay wages set out in federal fair wage guidelines as requested by provincial Labor Minister Bob McClelland. That wage is $15.25 an hour for a carpenter.
Expo president Michael Bartlett said if unions refuse to work at Expo under the existing wage conditions, their firms risk losing their contracts.
Fair officials, already struggling with ways to reduce costs that have soared far above the $800-million budget, have said the tight construction schedule doesn’t leave any further room for labor delays.
But Gautier said the building trades had “gone the whole road as far as we’re concerned to come to an agreement with Expo.”
Pattison and Gautier had been bargaining hard in the past 48 hours in an effort to reach agreement. Gautier said the building trades had agreed to exempt the contentious Kerkhoff contract from the union rate.
The unions also were willing to finish the project under old contract wages and not the new ones recently negotiated with the construction association.
This aerial view shows where Tom Marsden disappeared and the area being searched. The youth was at a party at the campsite visible below Summit Lake at the bottom of the photo. Highway 97 is at the lower right-hand corner. A woman be-
Citizen photo by Brock Gable from Northern Mountain Helicopters
lieves she spotted Marsden about 12 kilometres in the bush on the logging road, shown above the lake in the picture. Footprints, believed to be Marsden’s, were also found on auxilliary roads in logged areas of the bush.
YOUTH MASSING SIX DAYS
Fatigue plagues searchers
by ARNOLD OLSON Staff reporter
Faces are drawn and nerves are fraying among some of the searchers who have been giving all they have this week in the search for 17-year-old Tom Marsden.
Yet, some of these people — a few had as little as three hours sleep Wednesday night — stayed overnight Thursday so they could resume the search at daybreak today.
Marsden has been lost since Saturday in the Teapot Mountain area, 49 kilometres north of Prince George. He had attended a lakeside party overnight Friday and the search for him has been in progress since late Monday.
RCMP Inspector R. Falkingham said the search likely would continue through the weekend if Marsden is not found today.
Thursday, earlier search techniques changed from tracking to line searches as more volunteers showed up. In line searches, people walk abreast and in sight of each other through the woods, swamps, devil’s club and skunk cabbage, looking for traces of the lost boy.
The official record shows 72 searchers registered at the headquarters, but the actual number is greater because some people also registered at a blockade set up to keep control of who is in the woods.
Planes flew overhead, checking roads in hopes the lad might have come out of the woods.
Some trackers were called in from the field and used as experienced personnel among the volunteers from all walks of life.
Six B.C. Forest Service initial fire-attack personnel added their abilities as experienced woodsmen to the search.
Three horsemen from Salmon River rode back trails, searching for clues or footprints.
Three power boats plied the waters at the north end of Summit Lake and with the help of two canoes, even tried streams leading into and from the lake.
The lakeshore has been trekked by searchers, and eight tracking teams walked main and side roads.
The search area has centred on the site where Marsden had partied with friends Friday night. Ever-widening circles of searches are being conducted from that point, because past statistics indicate most lost people are found within a short distance of where they were last seen.
It is on this fact that a conundrum has developed Where was Marsden last seen?
His friends’ stories arc two-fold:
• He went searching for his younger brother. Ted. Tom remained in the woods, about 24 kilometres from the party site, after Ted had hitchhiked out of the area and back to Prince George.
• Tom was ill — there were reports uf liquor at the party — and was chased away from the campsite and disappeared into the night.
Both versions must be considered by search officials.
The first version is supported by witnesses who say they saw two teenagers along roads 24 kilometres or more from the Hart Highway. Tracks found in the vicinity seem to match the description of what the Marsden boys were wearing.
Those tracks indicate staggering, either because ol being drunk or from fatigue and effects of staying in the woods with no food or equipment.
If the second version is true, it is hardly likely Tom Marsden was able to travel 14 kilometres that night or Saturdav and is therefore closer to the camp.
Searcn officials cannot discount either story easily.
No one wants to give un the search, but as time oes on, more heads are beginning to shake in lost ope.