today in brief
THE MAN who attempted to kill Pope John Paul says Polish labor leader Lech Walesa was also a target.	Page
THE STORK could be making triple trips to Prince George soon.	Page
THE LIONS and the Bombers meet tonight and first place in the CFL West in on the line.
Page
MOVIE CENSORS in Ontario who cut scenes in films shown in other provinces face increas-ingly-angry protests. Page
 2
 3
13
23
HERMAN
“Your horoscope says. 'Luck is on your side today. Don't be afraid to take risks.'"
Index
Ann Landers............12
Bridge..................18
Business.............10,11
City, B.C...............3,7
 Classified............13-20
Comics .................22
Crossword..............17
Editorial.................4
 Entertainment.......22,23
Family .................12
Forum...................5
Horoscopes.............18
International.............2
Movies..................22
Sports................13-14
I
Sadrack says
   Guaranteed snow today, with .a high of -7, cooling off to -13 tonight with an 80 per cent chance of intermittent snow fluries.
  Sunday expect more flurries, alternating with patches of sun. and a high of -6 to -9.
  The present arctic front is expected to stick around Monday and Tuesday, with the snow stopping and
 your car harder to start as temperatures drop still further.
The
Prince George
Citizen
35c
Saturday, October 27, 1984
ana
SPECIAL INTEREST VOTES REFUSED
City votes no on referendums
town
  TABLOID
  INCLUDED
Two more make 12 for race
Staff reporter
The annoucements Friday by incumbent George McKnight and first time candidate Phyllis Parker raises the number of aldermanic candidates in Prince George’s municipal elections to an even dozen.
According to McKnight, he will seek a third term on a platform of continued support for growth and jobs and a smoother-running citv council.
The city’s priority must be to create the right climate for more industry, he said, adding he’s concerned about young people having to leave town because they can’t get work.
As well, McKnight says council must work as a team, develop priorities and stick to them.
“That hasn’t been done before,” he said.
McKnight said he's disappointed but not surprised at Alcan’s decision to postpone a planned smelter near Vanderhoof.
At the Quebec smelter, McKnight said he saw parking lots stockpiled with ingots. However, he added, people in the Central Interior are partly responsible for Alcan’s decision.
He charged that the federal department of fisheries and oceans held meetings that “weren’t properly run,” and resulted in more misunderstandings and a more unstable climate for Alcan. The provincial government could have helped put these problems in perspective but hasn’t done so.
 It will take time for Alcan to reconsider, but in the meantime, the region has lost a potential 750 fulltime jobs and an annual payroll of about $22 million, he said.
“We have to be realistic and practical to get things rolling again and that's my platform.”
Parker, a life-long resident of Prince George says,
“I believe I have a unique perspective to offer.”
 Parker hasn’t run for council before, but she's familiar with City Hall operations. As secretary to the city clerk in the late ‘50s, she worked with the mayor and aldermen on an ongoing basis.
Parker, 57, is one of the five founding directors of the Prince George art gallery and she also served on the library board for eight years, including three years as chairman.
 She said council’s decision on the Cameron Street overpass prompted her to run.
After weeks of debate, aldermen selected a route for the overpass which runs past houses overlooking Carney Street and the Nechako River.
 People who live in the area, including Parker, were concerned about more noise and declining property values. They formed a citizens' group and had an engineering firm draft an alternate design which was rejected.
‘‘I felt people weren’t really heard,” she said. “It seemed a decision was made before our proposal was considered.”
 ‘‘The city certainly needs industry and I want to see they are served properly," she said.
Parker, who works as a drug and alcohol counsellor for Prince George Regional Hospital, says she’ll work for better amenities.
Winter warmth
 Forget about the slippery streets. Cathy Banzer’s smile is warm enough to make you glad winter has arrived.	Citizen photo by Kic Ernst
MAJOR PROJECT DELAYED
Alcan reaction mixed
Staff reporters
  Alcan’s decision Friday to postpone its $3-billion Kemano Completion Project power dam and smelter proposal has drawn mixed reactions from businessmen, politicians and environmental groups.
 Dale McMann, manager of the Prince George Region Development Corporation said, “when I was back in Quebec two weeks ago, I saw, enormous stockpiles of aluminum ingots.
  “At that time there was concern at the company about these stockpiles and future demand. Their reaction is simply facing economic reality, unfortunately.
 “The company is working to solve this problem and their efforts can be expected to eventually put the Kemano Completion Project back on stream.”
 Frank Howard, MLA-Skeena (NDP), said, “I’ve argued for a long time that Alcan, or somebody else, should move in the direction of further processing in this area using the aluminum already being produced. Rather than additional smelting facilities, we can’t overemphasize the value-added aspect for our economy. I hope Alcan's decision to postpone its additional smelting capacity will allow them time to re-examine the question of
manufacturing aluminum products in this area.”
  Alcan’s decision also affects the plans of at least one aldermanic candidate in Prince George.
  When Hans Taal announced his candidacy in September, he said he would “strive in every possible way” to get the smelter project to proceed.
  Friday, he said the announcement. ‘‘comes as a great disappointment to me.
  “It was one project where contractors, subtrades and the unemployed could have seen the light of day.”
  Taal says if he’s elected, he'll ask council to do whatever it can to have the provincial government persuade Alcan to proceed with the new smelter when markets improve.
  Prince George and District Labor Council president Ken Stahl said the delay was a good thing because of possible environmental damage to rivers.
  “We’re not against jobs, but a lot of people are not thinking beyond tomorrow,” he said. “If it’s going to damage rivers, let’s make sure it’s a viable project.”
  Despite the delay, he said the labor council will make a presenta-
 tion on the project’s anticipated environmental impacts to the B.C. Federation of Labor’s convention in November.
   Vanderhoof environmentalist and alderman Louise Kaneen was pleased with the announcement.
   "I’m glad they finally put their cards on the table,” explained Kaneen, who said she doubted that the company was serious about building the smelter and only wanted to divert water to increase hydro-electric power.
   “People were never willing to trade tne river for a smelter," she added, ‘i’ve always said they should clean up Kemano One before they think about anything else. I still want a federal government inquiry into the present management of the Nechako River. I’m not happy with the way its managed and I feel there’s still the need for a diversion tunnel around the Kenney Dam."
   The company’s application, originally filed in January 1984, included Alcan’s intention to expand its hydroelectric power facilities at Kemano to serve the additional smelter capacity. The overall program has usually been referred to as the Kemano Completion Project.
by BOB ROWLANDS Staff reporter
  Prince George’s new-found referendum fever has been quickly cured by city council.
  No death penalty proposals, nonuke appeals, or abortion abolition votes will be in the Nov. 17 election, aldermen overwhelmingly voted at a special meeting Friday.
  This leaves reducing tne size of council as the only question, other than who to vote for, that city residents will consider.
  Apparently, at least two other groups were eager to bring forward referendum requests.
  Aid. John Backhouse said he was disturbed by the number of special interest groups who wanted referendums.
  It seemed the city opened the floodgates when it approved in principle a referendum on capital punishment at Monday’s council meeting, he said.
  After the Prince George Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament read about the results of that vote, the group decided Wednesday it would ask for a referendum on cruise missile testing in Canada.
  On Friday, Barbara Gobbi of the Coalition for Life asked aldermen for a referendum on abortion because, she said, it appeared that council was getting into the referendum and polling business.
  Backhouse says he’s received numerous calls about referendums this week and 75 per cent of the people were in favor.
  Nonetheless, he voted against the proposals because he felt the plebiscites would make municipal government too cumbersome and expensive.
  On Friday, a city official estimated that’ each vote would cost $1,500 to $2,000 because more staff and more time would be required to count the votes, in addition to the cost of printing the ballots and advertising the bylaws.
  Paula Davies, chairman of the anti-nuclear group, said later she understood council’s position, but was disappointed.
  Many people believe they can do nothing to prevent a nuclear holocaust, she said. They have a sense of helplessness and they must be able to voice their opinion on this issue.
  But Aid. Jack Sieb told her the city already took a position on nuclear weapons when it held a referendum last year.
  Davies argued that last year’s vote was simply an opinion, but this year’s proposed vote was a demand that the federal government stop cruise missile testing. Canada is not obliged under its NATO commitments to have the tests, she said.
  Backhouse, who has supported the group for six years, said that position could pave the way to a wide variety of anti-nuclear votes and council unanimously passed a motion from Aid. Brian Brown-ridge to turn down the group’s request. (Mayor Elmer Mercier. and Aldermen Ed Bodner and Monica Becott were absent.)
Aldermen also passed another
Fall back on clocks
  Remember how some of us grumbled this spring because we had to get up an hour earlier when clocks were set forward for Daylight Saving Time?
Well, we get to sleep in this time
—	a whole precious, delightful hour
—	as we return to Standard Time, at 2 a.m. Sunday.
  The term “fall back" is the best way to remember how to set the clock for the fall season change. “Spring forward" is for Daylight Time.
  For those who must set alarms, the best time is Saturday night — there’s no use wasting that extra hour by getting up too early.
motion from Brownridge to defeat a bylaw for the capital punishment referendum.
  Acting Mayor Richard Godfrey tried to persuade council to support the the bylaw, saying that each referendum should be handled on its own merits and that council should give the public the right to express its views. Aid. Steve Sintich also voted for the bylaw.
  Aldermen Cliff Dezell and Art Stauble were the only members of council to vote against that referendum on Monday.
  Both said Friday the city was asked to act as if it was a poll-taking organization and added that’s not the proper role of municipality.
   Later, Barbara Gobbi of the Coalition for Life discussed the abortion issue, after aldermen debated whether she would be allowed to speak at all. Her request for a referendum was rejected.
  Brock McElroy, who asked for the capital punishment referendum, felt the bylaw would have been passed if other groups hadn’t asked for plebiscites.
Cuts seen for CBC
  OTTAWA (CP) — CBC president Pierre Juneau said Friday there will be cuts from the $896 million the corporation receives from the federal government but the precise reduction won’t be known until at least next month.
  Juneau, following his more than one hour meeting with Communications Minister Marcel Masse Friday, denied the budget of the radio and television network will be cut by $150 million. He said Masse told him a statement next month on the economy by Finance Minister Michael Wilson will set the stage for budget restraints.
  “No figure was mentioned at all. . . Everything depends on the overall economic policy which Mr. Wilson will announce,” Juneau said.
   He says he did not discuss his future as CBC president with Masse in the meeting.
  Sources in the Communications Department and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said Friday that much has been decided already. They say the cuts will range between $138 million and $150 million and Juneau may not preside for more than a few more months.
 'Bad tactics leave B.C. out in cold
  Poor tactics by the provincial government and B.C. forest industry caused companies here to be left out of a program that gave Eastern pulp firms $385 million, Richard Herring, head of the Canadian Forestry Service, said Friday During a Citizen interview, federal forestry minister Gerry Meri-thew, in Prince George Friday, was asked about the Liberal government’s giveaway to eastern companies.
  Herring interjected. “One program was going and available." When B.C. asked for reforestation money instead, “they got caught in trying to trade that for a program that wasn’t approved. Bad tactics isn’t a bad expression. They lost a bird in the hand.”
   Merithew said, “I got $42 million for New Brunswick. It acted as seed money for $800 million in capital investment. I think it's the best investment the government ever made of tax dollars.”
 On h is own page 22
*