today in brief
 CANADA has retained some of the most productive fishing grounds on the east coast as a result of the World Court decision on Georges Bank south of Nova Scotia.	Page
 B.C. FISHERMEN caught in a storm that left five dead were deceived by erroneous weather reports, says their union leader.	Page
TIM COWAN and Mervyn Fernandez led the B.C. Lions to victory over the Ottawa Rough Riders.	Page
“You won't be able to write a check with your hands shaking like that."
Index
Ann Landers.............9
Bridge..................21
Business .............26,27
 City, B.C............3,6,12
 Classified ............18-23
Comics .................10
Crossword..............20
Editorial.................4
 Entertainment.......11-13
Family ..................9
Horoscopes.............21
International.............2
Movies..................11
National.................5
 Rolling Stone...........12
Sports................15-17
 Tall Tiger Page 15
 Sadrack says
   Cooler and drier weather is predicted for the next few days, with scattered clouds and a low of -5 expected overnight.
   Tuesday is expected to be partially cloudy, with highs during the next few days struggling to 10 even though the sky will be clearer.
   On Sunday, the high was 8 and low -1 with 4 millimetres of rain and 22 minutes of sunlight.
   On this date last
 year, the high was 5 and low -5 with 5.7 hours of sunlight and no rain.
   The sun will set tonight at 6:13 p.m. and will rise at 7:41 a.m. Tuesday.
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  DETROIT ! BASEBALL j FANS RIOT
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        Associated Press DETROIT - Hundreds of fans roamed streets blockaded by buses early today as police tried to limit World Series baseball victory parties that left one dead, dozens injured, at least 34 arrested and streets littered with burned cars and debris.
   Thousands of Detroit fans > poured into downtown streets Sunday night when the Tigers { beat the San Diego Padres 8-4 to win their first series appear- ^ ance since 1968.
   One man among the throng | was shot to death, but details of u the incident were not available ) early today, said police Lieut, j Fred Williams.
   A police car and a taxicab I were torched in hours of vio- j lence that forced authorities to 8 close a park, an office complex 3 and freeways leading downtown | The air along Michigan Ave- * nue outside Tiger Stadium ^ smelled of burning tires, mari- | juana, beer and horse manure F soon after the victory. Broken jj glass crunched underfoot.
    A man walked to an overturn- | ed taxicab outside the stadium, * removed the gasoline tank cap, S and tossed in a match. The cab | burst into flames with a roar, jj Later, the crowd tossed a mo- | torcyle into the fire.
    “I know there were some row- j dy fans tonight,” said Pam Col- | lins. 23. of suburban Royal Oak. “But this is the World Series, and you’ve got to expect some kind of rowdiness.”
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New court facilities
approved
  Prince George North MLA Jack Heinrich says the provincial government will pay $1.3 million for new court facilities in the Plaza 400 building.
   But he can't say when the city will receive a new court house.
   Provincial court is moving because its lease at the public safety building on Brunswick Street is expiring. The treasury board approved the project last week, he said.
  Mayor Elmer Mercier said he hopes the move to Plaza 400 will be simply a stop-gap measure for the next three years.
   The city has been asking for a new court house similar to buildings in New Westminster and Kamloops, he said, adding the project would be part of downtown redevelopment.
   “We’ll see what happens as time goes on.” Heinrich replied. “In three or four years, perhaps there will be a need for another facility.
   The new court facilities will help fill up the ground floor of Plaza 400. which has been nearly vacant for the past three years, he said
   The project includes three courtrooms. a hearing room, judges’ chambers, an expanded court registry and related administration services.
   Prince George South MLA Bruce Strachan said the government will spend about $700,000 for a gymnasium and administrative buildings at the Hudta Lake prison camp.
   The government is also spending about $100,000 for improved security systems at the jail.
   All three projects should be complete in mid-1985, the MLAs said.
   Originally, the provincial couit lease at the public safety building was to expire at the end of the year, but it has been extended to the end of next March
   Heinrich and Strachan made the announcements Saturday during the official opening ceremonies for the city’s new waste water treatment plant on Lansdowne Street.
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   OTTAWA - The Mulroney government is considering ;j $4 billion increase in unemployment insurance premiums, according to sources in Ottawa.
    The increase would come in the form of a 50 per-cent increase in emj loyer-employee premiums, to take effect next year.
    Flora MacDonald, Minister of Employment and Immigration, is awaiting a recommendation on premium increases from the unemployment insurance commissioners. They are now reviewing the premiums and will report to the minister by the end of the month, said a spokesman for MacDonald
    The decision will have to be made soon so employers can be notified before the end of the year about any changes in unemployment insurance deductions. Such changes would have to be worked into tax tables for 1985.
    The huge accumulated unemployment insurance fund deficit, estimated at between $5 billion and $5.5 billion, is of major concern to the new government.
    With more than one million Canadians collecting unemployment cheques, the question facing the government is whether rates should be increased, and if so, by how much.
    In 1982 premium rates rose by 53 per cent. Last year, the rate remained unchanged. The total deficit was about $4.1 billion at the end of 1983.
    If the government increases the premium rate by 50 per cent, employees would pay $3.45 a week per $100 earnings and employers would pay $4.83 a week per $100 of employee pay. Employees now nay $2.30, while employers contribute $3.22.
    With employer and employee payments estimated to be $8.5 billion this year, some experts said they hope the rate will not increase.
    Samuel Hughes, president of ; the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said the premiums are already high enough.
    “An increase of five, 10 or 50 per cent would not be acceptable,” said Hughes.
    “There’s no way the social benefits should be put on the backs of employers or employees.’’ he said.
    Michael McCracken at Infor-metrica Ltd.. an economic research firm, said raising rates during a high-unemployment period would work against what the government is trying to do — create jobs.
    “The premium rate is like a payroll tax. If the government’s concern is to generate employment. I find it odd to increase personal taxes.” he said.
    At current cost, unemployment insurance will cost Canadians between $55 and $65 billion over the next five years, said Marianne Anton.ak. Director of National /Ufa rs for the Canadian Feder.ition of Independent Business
    If such an increase were implemented. the effect on employment would be disastrous, especially for small firms, she added.
   Employers pay 40 per cent more in premiums than employees.
    She said it would be devastating to “to burden the very sector that has created jobs.” especially since small businesses created 100 per cent of new jobs.
cab driver murdered
Citizen photo by Brock Gable
 RCMP keep watch where Danny Bryce, 29, was dog (background) alerted his owner to an unfound dead in his taxi cab after a neighborhood known presence in the area Sunday night.
$150,000 DONATION
Trail plan gets big boost
by BERNICE TRICK Staff reporter
   A Prince George taxi driver was found dead in his cab Sunday night, the victim of what RCMP believe was a robbery.
   The body of Danny Bryce, 29, was found in his Prince George Taxi cab about 11 p.m. Sunday in South Fort George in a bush area near Regent Street. Police would not say how he was killed.
   RCMP went to the scene after a telephone call from a woman whose dog alerted her to an unknown presence in the area.
   A search using police service dogs failed to locate the assailant, who is believed to have left the scene on foot.
   Police, who are looking for someone with bloody clothing, are continuing to investigate.
   Otto Doering, manager of Prince George Taxi, says no word was received by radio from Bryce after he reported picking up a fare from the McDonald Hotel and appeared to be destined for Moran’s Trailer Court.
   Doering, who believes Bryce was stabbed to death, says “there’s been a few cases recently where drivers have had knives held to them.
   “All that’s happening in the big cities seems to be catching up to us here.”
   Bryce had been driving for six months and “was constantly trying to learn more by spending his own time in the dispatch office.”
   The rookie driver, who was married, was well-liked by his fellow workers and his customers for his pleasant nature.
   His father, Don Bryce, was a shareholder in Prince George Taxi until he moved south a few years ago.
  Doering said when the word about Bryce’s death got out, taxi drivers from Prince George Taxi and Emerald Taxi gathered at the First Avenue dispatch office to discuss what had happened.
  “No one was too eager to go back on the road,” he said.
   Taxi driver Heinz Striegan believes Bryce was killed for “a few lousy dollars.”
   “The whole thing is insane as far as I’m concerned, and I could scream to think he was killed just for a few lousy dollars.
  “How much money could he have had on him at 11 p.m. Sunday night? If he had $30 on him, I’d be surprised,” he said.
   “And I’m afraid it’s going to get worse if the economy doesn't improve,” he concluded.
 HI A driver for Loomis Courier Services discovered Friday that people appreciate a courteous act. Flowers from an anonymous sender were delivered to the business. The card with them read “To your driver who carried a lady’s groceries from Fifth Avenue and Dominion Street to her car. Chivalry is not dead. Thank you.” A company employee said the driver was “quite pleased.” She added ‘it was an awfully nice thing to do. We would like to say to her ‘thank you and you're welcome’.”
 ■ Thanks to our newspaper carriers and subscribers for the patience they demonstrated Friday, when newspapers were up to three hours late in some areas. The Citizen experienced mechanical problems which resulted in a delay in getting the finished product out to the carriers.
 been looking for an appropriate project they could support in Prince George for a number of years, company president Don Gould said.
   When the rivers project surfaced, the company’s directors became excited and “felt it would be a great benefit to the citizens of Prince George.”
   A master plan approved by council earlier this year calls for about 16 kilometres of trails extending from Moore’s Meadow, near Foothills Boulevard in the west, to the junction of the two rivers and then south to College Heights. The first segment will be built from Cottonwood Island Park to Cameron Street.
   The two river.N are one .of the most beautiful aspects of the city, Gould says.
   He noted the new trails and parks will open up the entire area for hiking, jogging, cross-country skiing, cycling and even horse riding.
   “It was this potential for more recreation that got us interested ”
   “We'd like to see some of the work this fall,” Gould said.
   The Winton family, which has been in the forest industry for three generations, has made similar donations in at least two other communities where the company has been located, Gould said.
   The family opened its first sawmill in 1889 in Wisconsin. The company came to Canada in 1905 and has had mills at The Pas, Manitoba and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It also operated Eagle Lake Sawmills near Prince George between 1922 and 1933.
   This year, The Pas Lumber is celebrating its 30th anniversary in Prince George. (At present.* its only milling facilities arc in this city.)
   “We hope this donation will encourage other companies and individuals to contribute to the project,” Gould said.
   “We also hope it won’t be too many years until the entire project is complete.”
   The mayor noted that another firm. Industrial Reproductions, has offered to print a map of the trails system.
   Work started on trails west of Cottonwood Island Park this fall with a federal job-creation project sponsored by Lakeland Mills. As well, Prince George Pulp and Intercontinental plan to beautify property on the opposite side of the river.
Teck cuts
 VANCOUVER (CP) - Teck Corp.. the smallest of the two major northeast coal producers, has agreed to cut the price of coal it sells to Japanese steel mills by $10 a tonne but the Japanese have agreed to take about 200,000 tonnes more coal a year.
 The agreement by Teck is for the period April 1. 1984, to March 31.
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coal price
  1986. the company says.
    Under the original contract, the steel mills had agreed to take 1.7 million tonnes of metallurgical coal a year at about $100 a tonne. The price will now be $90 a tonne, still well above the $69-a-tonne price at which Westar Mining Ltd. and Fording Coal Ltd. in southeastern British Columbia are shipping to the Japanese.
by BOB ROWLANDS Staff reporter
  The Pas Lumber Company will donate $150,000 to the city for construction of trails along the Fraser and Nechako Rivers.
   Mayor Elmer Mercier said today he believes the cash donation is largest in the city’s history and predicted it will encourage other companies to contribute.
“I never expected the city would
 receive so much,” he said
 And Aid. Ed Bodner, chairman of the Rivers Committee, said today he’s really pleased with the
 news.
 He noted the forest industry helped finance the study for the trail system and said the donation from the Pas “shows what co-operation can do for the community.”
 The Winton family, the major shareholders of The Pas, have
  Mayor Elmer Mercier, left, receives big cheque from The Pas Lumber president Don Gould.	Citizen photo by Dave Milne