today in brief
THE PRINCE George Spruce Kings beat the Williams Lake Mustangs Saturday for their sixth Peace Cariboo Junior Hockey League title in seven years.	Page
CANADIANS feeling relief from lower interest rates can send their thanks to the United States, West German and Japanese governments. An analysis.	Page
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It's just a touch of heartburn."
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Sadrack says
   A series of frontal systems passing over Prince George are bringing snow and expected rain later today and clouds and showers Tuesday, but it will not last long, according to the weather forecast. Temperatures today and Tuesday are expected to reach highs near 7, lows near -3 with a 70 per cent chance of rain Tuesday.
  Sunday’s high was 10, the low was -5, there was no precipitation and 4.8 hours of sunshine.
   A year ago on this date
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 the high was 6, the low was -4 with a trace of snow and 7.8 hours of sunshine.
   Sunset today is at 6:31 p.m. and sunrise Tuesday is at 6:01 a.m.
The
Prince George
Citizen
Monday, March 24, 1986
  HERE'S OUR GIFT TO ROYAL COUPLE
   A scholarship to be presented annually to a graduating student in School District 57 will be the city’s gift to the Prince and Princess of Wales during their visit to Prince George May 4.
   At a news conference today, Mayor Elmer Mercier said the gift, to which all residents are being asked to contribute, was chosen because it fits into the Royal Family’s preference for gifts which remain in the community and benefit children.
   Donors contributing $5 or more to the scholarship fund will have their names included in a book which Mercier will present to the Prince of Wales during his visit.
   The amount of the annual scholarship will be determined by the amount of money raised by the time the scholarship fund drive closes on April 25. It is hoped the fund will be at least $20,000 so interest earned by it can provide an annual scholarship of at least $2,000.
   All donations are eligible for income tax receipts.
  Mercier said the City of Prince George would be donating “at least $500” to the scholarship.
  To be known as The Prince of Wales Scholarship, it will be presented to a student demonstrating outstanding academic and artistic ability. Citizenship achievements of students will also be considered in making the award, said Jim Imrich, district superintendent of School District 57 and a member of the committee arranging the royal visit.
   Imrich said newsletters providing information about the scholarship will be sent home Tuesday with all students and information about the scholarship will also be provided in an advertisement in Tuesday’s Citizen.	y
  The Roman Catholic school system and other private schools have also been invited to take part in raising money for the scholarship.
Libya fires missiles at American planes
        by Associated Press WASHINGTON - Libyan forces fired at least two anti-aircraft missiles today as U.S. planes crossed Col. Moammar Khadafy’s “line of death” and conducted operations over the disputed Gulf of Sidra, Pentagon sources said.
   No U.S. planes were hit by the missiles and there were no immediate reports of the United States responding with attacks on the Libyan coast, the sources added.
  The sources, who earlier had acknowledged receiving reports from the U.S. 6th Fleet about missile firings, stressed that the information arriving at the Pentagon was “fragmentary.”
   But they added it now appeared clear that at least two Soviet-made
 SA-5 surface-to-air missiles had been fired from the Libyan coast over the Gulf of Sidra toward U.S. planes.
   “The initial report said just one, but now they’re saying they detected two,” said one source, who agreed to discuss the matter only if not identified.
   “But they didn’t hit anything and just fell into the sea,” he said of the missiles.
  Officially, the Pentagon and White House slapped a lid of secrecy on the status of the U.S. manoeuvres in the Mediterranean.
  Robert Sims, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, would say only that reports of Libyan missile firings were still being investigated and could not be confirmed as yet.
Quake team arrives to check out region
by MALCOLM CURTIS Staff reporter
   Scientists have pinpointed the centre of the earthquake that rocked the Prince George region Friday at a spot 100 kilometres northeast of the city in the Rocky Mountain Trench.
   A seismologist and two technicians from the Pacific Geoscience Centre in Victoria arrived here over the weekend to set up monitoring equipment in the region.
   The centre intitially indicated the earthquake was centred about 200 kilometres east of the city.
   “Our first guess was a little bit off.” said Bob Horner, Pacific Geoscience spokesman.
   The latest information places the centre of the earthquake roughly between the city and Turubler Ridge in an area where-no significant seismic activity has ever occurred before.
   “This is quite exciting,” said Horner. “We haven't recorded any earthquakes in Northern B.C. before. certainly nothing as large as this.”
  The quake measured 6.0 on the Richter scale, making it probably the largest ever recorded on the mainland of B.C. The Richter scale is a gauge of ground movement and energy release.
  Communities which felt the impact most included Upper Fraser and Sinclair Mills. In Upper Fraser, most of the stock was shaken from grocery shelves and the shock caused a minor electrical fire at the local school.
  The Rocky Mountain Trench was the site of a fault millions of years ago. Scientists will now map how far the earthquake was felt and at what intensities to determine how colliding plates of land shifted to create the tremor.
  Such activity occurs when the the crust of the earth is under stress.
“We had no reason until now to
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 believe that the Trench is still active fault,” Horner said.
   Portable seismographs will likely be dropped by helicopter in the forested region. Seismographs plot earth movements on a graph hooked up to a sensor implanted in the ground.
   They will measure anticipated aftershocks from the initial earthquake, which will likely be smaller, said Homer.
   He said the quake is unrelated to one felt in the city last October^ which was centred in the Mackenzie Mountains of the Northwest Territories in a different seismic zone.
 The spokesman added he hoped to be able to discuss the status of U.S. forces later today.
   The latest manoeuvres began off the Libyan coast Saturday night (EST). It was on Sunday nignt, however, that the first U.S. Navy jets began flying southward over the Gulf of Sidra.
   The initial flights were described by the sources as uneventful.
   The Libyans recently received several batteries of SA-5 missiles from the Soviet Union.
   The SA-5 is a long-range missile that can be used against targets up to 240 kilometres away but it is generally considered ineffective against fast, low-flying jets. The missile is considered a threat, however, to slower radar and com-mand-and-control planes.
   In another development, one source disclosed today that several smaller combat ships with the 6th Fleet had followed the jet fighters across the “line of death” — an imaginary boundary drawn by Khadafy across the top of the Gulf of Sidra.
   The sources refused to identify the ships, beyond saying they did not include the carriers Coral Sea, Saratoga and America. The three carriers are maintaining a position outside the gulf with most of their escorts deployed in defensive positions around them, the sources said.
   The United States dismisses Khadafy’s claims to the gulf, observing only a territorial limit of 12 nautical miles. Khadafy warned last month that any U.S. planes or ships entering the gulf would be attacked.
'INCREDIBLE'
by Canadian Press
 MATSQUI, B.C. — Parents, police and doctors are amazed Heather Lillian Jones is still alive after she slammed into a farmer’s soggy field Saturday when her parachute malfunctioned.
  The 20-year-old second-year business student suffered broken ribs and a cracked vertebrae in the 760-metre plunge when her main parachute failed to open completely and her emergency parachute was not deployed.
  “We still don’t know how she survived — her own doctor can’t believe it,” said her mother Lillian Jones who was visiting her daughter in hospital where she was listed in stable condition Sunday night.
 A police spokesman said the North Vancouver woman landed in soft ground but “it is utterly incredible that she survived.”
  It was Jones’s first attempt at parachuting. She and her boyfriend Allan Falconer of Maple Ridge had signed up for the $65 day-long course offered by Horizon Aerosports Ltd. of this Fraser Valley community.
  Instructor Gerry Harper said he watched in horror as the Capiiano College student plummetted in a virtual free fall.
  “The chute was released automatically, but it didn’t open into a completely round parachute.
  “Only about one-eighth to one-quarter of the canopy was opened. There was some drag so it did slow her down somewhat.” .
 Students are trained in emergencies to pull down on two clips, Harper said. That jettisons the main chute and automatically opens the backup chute.
 Jones could also have pulled a ripcord to open the emergency chute.
 “We still don't know what happened.’’ said Harper. “She didn’t appear to do anything.”
                         The original dance, Celebration of Northern Lights, is in full rehearsal by young dancers who are aiming toward a one-shot performance during Celebration the opening of the B.C. Festival of the Arts on May 4. The dancers were chosen for the special production, choreographed and directed by Karen Maides, for the visit of their royal highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, who are to officially open the arts festival. citizen photo by Dave Miine
CanTire pact accepted
by DIANE BAILEY Staff reporter
   Striking Canadian Tire workers have laid aside their picket signs and will return to work after unanimously ratifying a contract agreement with the local store.
   Retail Clerks Union president Bryan Denton said the 11 workers, about one-third of the number who originally walked out about 28 months ago, voted to accept the pact at a meeting Saturday.
   “We basically have a decent collective agreement,” Denton said after the vote.
   “We feel whatever rancor there has been in the past or feelings are going to be put aside.”
   He said the workers should be back on the job within about two weeks.
  Provision has been made for nine of the workers to return to work and two more cases have been sent to arbitration.
   Denton said the agreement contains “satisfactory” union security and seniority clauses.
   The major stumbling block to a settlement, the issue of whether union membership should be mandatory, was sent to binding arbitration late Friday.
   Arbitrator Ken Albertini ruled that people who were not members of the union before the strike and people hired during the strike do not have to join the union, said Denton.
   He said workers who were members before the strike will remain part of the union. All new employees will have to join the union but may choose to opt out after two years.
   “It is not exactly what we we wanted and I don't think it is what (store-owner) Mr. (Tom) Stead-
 man wanted. But it is something we both can live with,” Denton said.
   “What it really is is a compromise.”
   Steadman said the two-year contract, which expires in 1988, incorporates the existing wage and benefit plan.
   He said in 1986 workers will receive about a five-per-cent increase over the current rate for their experience and hours worked. There will be another five-per-cent increase next year.
   The actual dollar amount varies according to individual experience and hours.
  Neither Denton nor Steadman
 would claim the settlement as a victory.
 “Both sides got something out of it and both sides had to compromise to get it,” said Steadman.
 Denton agreed, saying the pact was more a “solution” than a victor
 ry.
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   ‘ivian Wicks, who continued to work when the strike started but joined the picket line in October 1984, said any bitter feelings between striking workers and those who continued to work have dissipated with time.
   “Both sides have come to realize after that length of time the choices were made and they can live with them.”
CNC accord toasted
   Faculty and board members at the College of New Caledonia toasted their contract agreement with wine Saturday after the board agreed to unanimously ratify the pact.
   It was a pleasant end to the protracted and sometimes tense set of negotiations that nearly broke down in a strike almost three weeks ago.
   The faculty voted 96 per cent in favor of the agreement last Wednesday.
   “I think the board is ecstatic that we have a negotiated settlement that all parties feel they can embrace,” said Glenn Barr, chairman of the CNC board.
   “I think it bodes well for the college and I think it bodes well for the community,” said Jan Cioe. a faculty negotiator.
   The three-year agreement, which expires at the end of November 1987, incorporates the college demand for a longer school year in some courses but limits the total number of teaching hours.
  The faculty did manage to win its fight to have part-time faculty placed on the wage scale according to experience, but were unable to get the method of calculating the wage rates changed.
   The pact calls for no wage increase and no increments for the year beginning Dec. 1, 1984. This year, faculty members will receive an across-the-board increase of $625 with a guarantee they will receive scale increments in August.
   In November 1986, wage negotiation for the final year of the contract will be reopened.