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The Prince George
Citizen
 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1986	40 CENTS
City nurses hold protest  3  
Apartheid foes lose funds 7  
Scott confounds Mets      13 
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EXPO HOURS EXTENDED
   KAMLOOPS (CP) — Expo 86 will open its gates an hour earlier than usual for the final four days of the exposition because of huge crowds on the site, Claude Richmond, the minister responsible for the fair, said here Wednesday night.
   The pavilions at Expo normally open at 10 a.m., although the fairgrounds themselves are often opened earlier to allow crowds onto the site.
   Richmond says opening the gates earlier will allow the fair to reach 22 million visitors. Total attendance up to Wednesday was 20,955,257.
   Richmond says increasing the attendance will furthur reduce the Expo deficit. He also said there will be an extra fireworks display on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to provide a big ending to Expo, which closes Monday.
City plans
construction
incentives
 This forbidding fence topped with barbed wire next to the King George V elementary school playing Keep out field, separates it from the new Prince George school district siorage yard which was built this summer, using some of the former playing area.
 The sloping brackets of barbed wire discourage agile youngsters from climbing into the yard where they could be hurt. Plans are to develop new playing space from other nearby school district property*	Citizen photo by Lisa Murdoch
FIGHT IN CHURCH LOT HERE
3 charged in slayings
by BERNICE TRICK Staff reporter In an effort to spur construction, the city has proposed chopping development cost charges by about 30 per cent.
   If approved by Victoria, it would make it cheaper to build homes and apartments or develop light industrial or commercial business. The move is being made in light of a worsening construction picture in Prince George.
According to latest reports, the value of construction activity in
 Prince George is $15.3 million so far this year, a drop of more than $11 million from the same time last year.
   At this week’s meeting, council accepted recommendations by the, engineering department to iower costs about 30 per cent and prepare an amended bylaw for approval from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs.
   It’s expected the new bylaw will be implemented by year’s end.
   Development cost charges are collected by the city and put toward construction of major roads and road structures, storm drainage facilities amnd acquisition of open space and park lands. At present the rates vary in different parts of the city.
   The new proposal, which eliminates charges for open space and drainage and collects only for construction of roads and road structures, makes the charges uniform throughout the city.
   Proposed development cost charges are $990 per single family unit, $1,386 per two-family unit, $690 per multi-unit, $15,325 per hectare for service-light industrial, $4,257 per hectare for heavy industrial and $5.68 per square meter for commercial.
   Prior to the proposed reduction, the costs averaged about $1,100 for a single family unit, $750 for a multi-unit, $17,000 for service-light industrial and $12 per sq. meter for commercial.
   The reduction amounts to an average of about 30 per cent, said Mayor Elmer Mercier, who broached the idea two years ago during his election campaign.
   “At that time I made a promise to drop development costs altogether as a way to encourage more construction and development in the city. The best I’ve been able to do is get them down about 30 per cent,” he said.
   Rosalind Thorn, a spokesman for the Prince George Construction Association, said the association wants to study the city’s proposal before commenting on any impact it might have.
BULLETIN
  MONTREAL (CP) — The International Civil Aviation Organization has adopted a resolution, co-sponsored by Canada, to make terrorist attacks on airports an international crime.
   The resolution, if transformed into international law, would permit countries to arrest and prosecute terrorists suspected of attacking airports anywhere in the world.
  Three Prince George men have been charged and a fourth man is expected to be charged later today following a multiple stabbing Tuesday night in Prince George which left two men dead and another in hospital.
  Tarlochar Singh Maan, 27, and his brother Harnek Singh Maan, 35, and Ajmel Singh Dhillon, 34, each face two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
  The men were charged following
        by Canadian Press VANCOUVER - The squeals, groans and clanks of loading machinery sounded in West Coast ports today as freighters began taking on cargo after shippers agreed to temporarily lift a lockout and allow the docks to reopen.
  The resumption of activity brought a sigh of relief from Prairie farmers as loud as the swoosh of grain flowing down a spout into a bulk carrier’s hold.
   “We’re heaving a sigh of relief,” said John Moriss, a spokesman for the Canadian Wheat Board, said in Winnipeg. “There have been some losses but certainly two days is not as bad.”
   The British Columbia Maritime Employers Association said Wednesday they agreed “in the national interest” to lift their lockout of 3,700 longshoremen so cargo can
by KEN BERNSOHN Staff reporter
  The IWA and management are at loggerheads over Premier Bill Vander Zalm’s attempt to settle the 11-week-old forest industry strike.
   The talks failed because “the premier was so lusting after getting the political rewards of getting us Dack to work and so lacking in experience in this field,” Clay Perry, legislative director of the International Woodworkers of America in Vancouver, told The Prince George Citizen.
   But Peter Bentley, president of Canadian Forest Products, said the IWA “is trying to raise a smokescreen, not only because they’re inclined to favor the Opposition, but more particularly to deflect the concern of their own membership.
    “It’s like any other field, like reporting falling trees, you have to have some background in it,” said Perry.
   “Unhappily he (the premier) was so lacking in advice on the matter that he didn’t realize an essential step in getting us back to work was to get an agreement. He thought there might be some shortcut.”
The premier’s dramatic flight
 a fight in a church parking lot on Willow Street which claimed the lives of Jagdip Singh Brar, 22, and Murckinder Singh Malla, 26, and sent Surjit Singh Gill, 23, to hospital.
   Gill is in satisfactory condition in Prince George Regional Hospital.
  The fight is believed to have been a work-related argument which continued for a number of days. Harnek Maan lives on Bowser Avenue which backs onto the parking lot of the church.
 move and negotiations can resume over a contract and a contentious container clause.
   The bulk carrier Golden Farmer began taking on 4,000 tonnes of feed pellets at a North Vancouver terminal a few hours after the shippers’ decision was announced in Ottawa by federal Labor Minister Pierre Cadieux, who had requested ports be reopened.
   Outside the harbor in English Bay were an additional 20 ships — seven of them waiting to load grain — whose owners gambled there would be an early end to the West Coast port closure.
   The association representing 65 stevedoring firms suggested a 30-day period for the two sides to negotiate a new agreement and that the ports should reopen in the interim.
   Cadieux said the shippers re-
 Monday from a fish plant in Prince Rupert to meetings with the companies and unions wasn’t really a surprise, according to the IWA.
   “We were told to be on stand-by for a meeting at 5:30 (p.m.)” said Bob Blanchard, first vice-president of the IWA.
   “It was a staged media event to gain popular support,” said Frank Everitt, president of IWA Local 1-424 in Prince George.
   Jack Munro, president of the IWA, said Vander Zalm relied solely on the advice of his campaign manager. David Poole, instead of bringing along anyone familiar with the forest industry.
   Munro said Poole was “actively involved in the talks.”
   “It was ‘what about this, what about that.’ It was terrible,” Munro said.
   “Having been a participant in the process, I’m satisfied nothing was staged,” said Bentley.
   “Obviously it was in the premier’s political interest to achieve a return to work that regretably did not happen."
   By agreeing to return to work, both sides would be negotiating under pressure which could nave helped lead to an agreement, according to Bentley.
   Brar, Gill and Tarlochar Maan worked for B.C. Rail in Prince George.
   RCMP would not say what type of weapons were used nor what the fight was about.
   The men appeared in provincial court Wednesday and are seche-duled to appear again today. RCMP expect to charge a fourth man later today.
   Coroner John Wolsey said autopsies will be held today and Friday.
 ouested the government to act if tne dispute is not resolved in a month. Don Garcia, president of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, said the two sides should be able to negotiate a new agreement but the time limit means “we’ll be negotiating with a gun to Parliament’s head.”
   Stevedore Bruno Morabito. 54, who has worked Vancouver docks for 22 years, said he is worried the lockout might be reimposed.
   The return was good news for the grain industry. When the lockout of the 3,700 longshoremen began, Prairie farmers expressed concern that their record harvest would hit another export barrier just as a strike-lockout involving grain handlers at Thunder Bay, Ont., was coming to an end.
   There’s general agreement on the process of the talks, with one significant point of disagreement.
   Vander Zalm told a Vancouver press conference his orginal proposal called for a return to work while a high level commissioner reviewed the contracting out issue. The commissioner would also have examined convenor Justice Henry Hutcheon’s comments of Sept. 19. with a report due by June 14. 1987.
   The industry also agreed to a one-year contract, then made two additional suggestions.
   The problem, according to Everitt was “the premier tried to get us to return to work without a settlement.”
   Bentley said, “We were not happy with all the provisions of his proposal, but in the interest of getting the province moving we did not think we had sound ground on which to reject it, so the industry accepted the proposal.
   “The union refused the proposal to return to work. Then the union made a counter-proposal which also included a return to work. Bentley added.
   “Sure we’re willing to return to work, if there’s a settlement,” Perry said.
Lumber
decision
delayed
 WASHINGTON (CP) - A U.S. government decision to delay for one week a ruling on whether to slap penalty duties on imports of Canadian softwood lumber will not result in Canada changing its position, a spokesman for the Canadian lumber industry said Wednesday.
 And in Ottawa, Trade Minister Pat Carney warned freer-trade talks between Canada and the United States might be threatened and appeared to suggest retaliation might be in the offing if punitive measures are taken against Canadian lumber.
 A coalition of U.S. lumber companies seeking the duties announced Wednesday it has agreed to a request from U.S. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige to delay the ruling until Oct. 16 to give negotiations a chance.
.. .and in tomorrow's Citizen...
  A 71-year-old former spy and freedom fighter is to become Israel’s ninth prime minister as part of the country’s unprecedented coalition experiment. Tomorrow, read why Yitzhak Shamir will change more of Israel’s international style than its substance.
   Also planned:
  ■	Men whom hate women.
  ■	Baseball’s continuing saga unfolds.
   “We suggested accepting Hut-cheon’s recommendations, or to sit down and negotiate some other settlement of the crucial issue of contracting out.
   “Everything fell apart at that point, the question of whether we’d return to work without a settlement on that issue after 11 weeks out basically over that issue. If he’d concentrated on getting an agreement he might have succeeded.” said Perry.
   “The industry felt they (the union) had loaded the deck somewhat, and made two minor amendments to the union proposal, according to Bentley.
   “The union then said they felt uncomfortable about any return to work without a prior solution and therefore rejected the proposal they in effect made only minor amendments. I felt the premier is not a professional mediator, but I feel he made a very sincere attempt.”
  Blanchard said the premier could have ended the strike by bringing pressure on the forest companies to settle.
   “He’s the custodian of the trees. He could have got the industry to budge. He didn’t.”
Tories
keep
slipping
          Southam News
     OTTAWA - Support for the Conservative party among decided voters dropped four percentage points in the last half of September, pushing the Tories to their lowest Gallup poll level since the 198*1 election, the public opinion institute reported today.
     A Gallup survey taken Oct. 2-4, just after the Conservatives opened Parliament with a new throne speech, indicated they had the support of 31 per cent of those willing to state a preference.
    Despite attacks on the leadership of John Turner from within his own party, in particular from Senator Keith Davey, the Liberals have climbed two points to 38 per cent among decided voters since the Sept. 11-13 poll.
     Support for the New Democrats is up one point to 29 per cent — only two points below the Conservatives and their highest standing since the 1984 election.
     With a margin of error of four points either way, the poll indicates the Tories and NDP are virtually neck , and neck.
     Gallup said most of the change in support is attributable to the surge in the level of undecided voters at the beginning of October. The undecided vote of 34 per cent of those surveyed is well above the 24 per cent who didn’t turn out ot the polls in 1984 federal election.
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