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 TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1986	40 CENTS
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Count me out, Pattison says
  VANCOUVER (CP) — Expo chairman Jim Pattison has decided not to seek the leadership of the British Columbia Social Credit party.
   Pattison said in an interview Monday he would rather get back to running his business empire after the world fair ends Oct. 13.
   "I’m not a candidate,” said Pattison. “I thought about it over the weekend.
   "But you know, my plan was to go back to my business when I get through with Expo and I intend to go through with that.”
   A party leadership convention will be held this summer to replace Premier Bill Bennett, who announced last week he would be retiring from politics, although he will remain as member of the legislature for Okanagan South until the next provincial election.
   Pattison said he would not support any candiate in the leadership race.
  "Basically, my commitment is to Expo and I think it would be inappropriate for me to support anybody who is running.”
 Provincial Secretary Grace McCarthy brushed past reporters Monday and refused to respond to questions about her plans.
 Finance Minister Hugh Curtis and Human Resources Minister Jim Nielsen both said Monday they are seriously considering going after the job.
  Bud Smith, Bennett's former principal secretary, said in a telephone interview from Kamloops, B.C., he will make up his mind within 10 days.
 Vancouver stockbroker Peter Brown said he had not decided whether to run.
 John Reynolds, the member for West Vatrouver-Howe Sound, planned to announce today he will seek the leadership.
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BRIDGES WASHED OUT, FAMILIES E VACUA TED
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Flash flood hits McBride area
   VICTORIA (CP) — Labor Minister Terry Segarty announced today that $25 million will be spent to help people find job training and employment and to assist employers find trained people.
   Ministry officials said the $25 million, representing newly allocated provincial funds from the ministries of labor and forests, will be spent during the current fiscal year and 10,000 people are expected to benefit from it.
   The program is called JobTrac.
     by MALCOLM CURTIS and WENDY KIRSCHNER Staff reporters A flash flood sent a wall of water rampaging down the Dore River Monday night, sweeping a car off Highway 16, washing out two logging bridges and forcing the evacuation of about 20 families near McBride.
    Shortly before 9 p.m. a mud slide in the Dore Canyon let loose about 10 kilometres southwest of the mountain village, causing a surge of water and debris down the normally quiet stream.
   Tree stumps and logs jammed up against the Highway 16 bridge forcing the river over the road and to the west of its usual path, said Doug Kirk, district highways manager.
    Seven kilometres of logging road were washed away and Highway 16 was closed for an hour while crews cleared the debris. The surge lasted about half an hour before the river returned to its normal flow, Kirk said.
   Although the shoulders were washed away near the bridge, the highway, linking Jasper to Prince George, remains open, he said.
   No one was reported hurt although three loggers were stranded overnight due to the washed-out bridges. They were brought out by helicopter this morning.
    A Buick passenger car driven by Walter Sunburg was carried off Highway 16 by the torrent and deposited in nearby bushes.
   "I was trying to get home when it happened, I live right on the river,” said Sunburg. "I’ve got some property that’s washed away so I can’t talk.”
   He “climbed to the roof of the car and jumped off when the car approached a high bank,” Sun-burg’s wife, Shirley, said.
    An earlier mudslide, 10 km north of the highway, flushed out a creek piling deposits of rock and debris five metres high on Mountain View Road, a rural road that was closed overnight and cleared early this morning.
    Village officials estimated total damage at $200,000.
    "You’d have to see it to believe it,” said Bill Hayes, a resident who had to be evacuated from the Dore River area, five kilometres west of McBride.
    "We had about four feet of river running down our front yard. It moved my truck about 100 feet and flooded everything,” said Hayes.
   "We’re just starting to pick things up now.”
    The flood cut electrical power, contaminated water supplies and forced 15 families to flee from a trailer court.
   Evacuees stayed with friends, neighbors and at motels in the village.
   Bob Elliott was at home this morning surveying the damage done to his river-side home.
    "There’s about four feet of silt and mud and logs,” he said. “A logging bridge went out about 100 feet away from the river and logs came crashing down. It peeled about 10 feet off my front yard.”
    Tim Mitchell, assistant manager of the provincial emergency program, flew to McBride by helicopter from Prince George this morning to estimate the damage and "to see about relocating people.”
   McBride Mayor Steve Kolida said he’s seen nothing like it, noting it is only the second major flood in the region in 55 years.
    "It just went wild. Tree trunks and debris roared down the river.”
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  OTTAWA — Canada cannot ignore ihe American decision to slap stiff tariffs on imports of British Columbia cedar products, External Affairs Minister Joe Clark said today.
   Clark told reporters cabinet’s planning and priorities committee — the so-called inner cabinet — discussed possible responses in detail today.
   "They would include economic responses that we might follow and some measures of assistance to Canadians,” he said.
   Clark said some of the decisions taken by cabinet ministers may be made public soon while others "will continue to be discussed in some other meetings.
   "Some of the steps, by their nature, take some time to carry out.”
   Clark said on the way into the meeting that the American tariff decision requires a response.
   “Canada can’t simply ignore what has been done to us and it’s in that spirit that we’re proceeding.”
   Both opposition parties have accused the government of ignoring warnings that the U.S. was going to approve a five-year tariff on imports of Canadian cedar shakes and shingles worth $250 million a year.
   They called on the government to suspend freer-trade talks until the U.S. withdraws the tariffs and agrees not to impose more penalties while the talks are under way.
   Liberal Leader John Turner told the Commons today that British Columbia Premier Bill Bennett wrote to ‘Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on May 7 urging him to contact President Ronald Reagan immediately to persuade him not to act against Canadian imports.
   "I am deeply concerned that the president may, in fact, decide to impose a tariff perhaps for extraneous reasons,” Bennett says in his letter.
   The tariffs, announced Thursday night after the first round of freer-trade talks concluded in Ottawa, are set at 35 per cent for the first 30 months, 20 per cent for the next two years and eight per cent for the final six months.
   Canadian Forest Products in Vancouver responded immediately by laying off about 75 workers. Mill owners formed a committee and plan tc meet federal officials in Vancouver and Ottawa.
   Bennett sent another letter to Mulroney on Monday calling for a standstill during the trade talks.
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   OTTAWA (CP) — James Morrison, a former Mountie who sold secrets to the Soviets in the mid-1950s to finance an extravagant lifestyle, was sentenced Monday to 18 months in provincial jail.
    After making the order, Mr. Justice Coulter Osborne of the Ontario Supreme Court said Morrison, 70, poses no security risk and should be immediately considered for a temporary-absence program that would allow him to leave jail before his sentence ends.
   Defence lawyer John Nelligan said he would move to have the former RCMP corporal, once known by the code name Long ' Knife, transferred to a British Columbia jail close to his Prince Rupert home and released on daily or weekly passes.
   "I’m hoping we can translate
 that sentence into something that’s as humane as he (the judge) had hoped it would be,” Nelligan told reporters outside the courthouse.
   Morrison, once a flamboyant RCMP corporal who sold the identity of a prized double agent to the Soviets for the equivalent of about one year’s salary, showed no emotion when sentenced or later when led from the courthouse to a police car.
   He had pleaded guilty to one count of breaching the Official Secrets Act in January and was facing a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison. The Crown had dropped two other charges in exchange for the guilty plea.
   Nelligan appealed for clemency during the sentence hearing, arguing Morrison had suffered enough
 Looking like bundles of matchsticks from the. air, Stocking up this inventory of logs will see Rustad Bros, and Co.
Ltd. sawmill on the BCR industrial site through
Citizen photo by Brock Gable courtesy Northern Mountain Helicopters
 spring breakup and the slower summer logging season. This is the time when log inventories are highest, following productive winter logging.
REDUCED PAY, BENEFITS
 Building trades cry foul
Boy, 3, drowns
 A three-year-old boy drowned Monday afternoon near his home on Evasko Road off the Giscome Highway.
 RCMP said the body of Sidney Miller was found face down in a slough in the back yard of his home by a neighbor who was helping the boy’s mother search for him.
 He was taken to Prince George Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
 association has failed to bargain in good faith, and has applied for a permanent order that the association bargain with the union’s designated bargaining council.
   Clive Lytle, a spokesman for the union bargaining council, said the matter was not expected to be resolved at the informal hearing today, and a formal hearing likely would be set within 24 hours.
  Meanwhile, Chuck McVeigh, president of the construction association, said the B.C. Supreme Court decision likely won’t affect the contractors’ strategy.
   In his ruling, Meredith said proposed changes to employment conditions must be considered to be an offer to employees.
   He requested, the Labor Relations Board assess whether such offers are proper.
   McVeigh said the contractors simply want a contract that makes them competitive with non-union contractors.
   Meanwhile, union construction jobs remained closed and quiet throughout Monday, with the exception of an incident at a motel construction site of Farmer Construction in Saanich, Lytle said.
   A scuffle broke out when the company tried to truck family members onto the site to work, said Andre Tel, secretary-treasurer of the Victoria Labor Council.
   The association locked out workers Thursday and invited them back Monday to work for $4 less an hour than the mean wage of $19.
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  VANCOUVER (CP) - The British Columbia Labor Relations Board has been asked to determine whether an offer by union contractors of reduced pay and benefits to building tradesmen violates the labor code.
   An informal hearing today follows an application by the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council for a coase-and-desist order against the Construction Labor Relations Association.
   More than 650 association companies locked out union workers last week, then invited them back
 with unilaterally changed contract conditions.
   The legality of that strategy was questioned last week in B.C. Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Kenneth Meredith found the labor board erred in a 1985 ruling that said employers could change the conditions of employment after contract expiry.
   The building trades council seeks an order against the association communicating with union employees in an attempt to circumvent the bargaining council.
   It also asks for a ruling that the
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 with the financial burden and public humiliation.
   Barring an appeal, Osborne may have written the final chapter in a spy story that began years ago when the RCMP’s security service was just learning the cloak-and-dagger business in the Cold War.
   Morrison was a junior corporal with expensive tastes and a load of debts when he accidentally learned the identity of a KGB agent who had turned RCMP informer. He knew the information was worth money.
   The double agent was David So-boloff, a Soviet spy working in a photography studio outside Montreal who was known to select RCMP officers as Gideon.
   Morrison took the information to the Soviets he had been trailing as part of his job and sold it for $3,500. Gideon was recalled to Moscow later that year and is believed to have been killed.
  A Grade 12 Kelly Road drama student and athlete has won the city’s second annual Youth of the Year Award.
 Lisa Keim, 17, was chosen based on her outstand-ing contribution to the community ■pV +‘ h| through volunteer	JW
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 Tammy Schulz . . , and Ray Snazel. ~
 Keim is an hon- KE,M or roll student, involved in Kelly Road’s recent production of West Side Story and is also accomplished in mime and jazz dancing.
  A leading member of Kelly Road’s senior girls’ basketball team, Keim was also a referee for junior basketball games.