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The Prince George
Citizen
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1986
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Injuries
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 A 33-year-old Prince George mother and her three-year-old daughter died Saturday in hospital from injuries sustained in a traffic accident Nov. 22 on Chief Lake Road.
 Colleen Mary Rigler died in Prince George Regional Hospital and her daughter, Cassie Lauraine Rigler, died in B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.
 Rigler was driving a car which was in a collision with a pickup truck on Chief Lake Road.
 The mother and her three daughters were celebrating one of the girl’s birthdays on the day of the accident. Two of the daughters, from a previous marriage, were also injured.
 Jody Gatzke, 10, is in satisfactory condition in hospital and Cory Gatzke, 12, has been released from hospital.
 The driver of the truck was not injured.
 RCMP said the occupants of the car were all wearing seatbelts.
 A remembrance service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First Baptist Church.
IWA strike expanding in south
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  VANCOUVER - About 500 woodworkers who had already settled in the forest dispute shut down four Vancouver Island mills today because they are “disgusted” with recommendations included in a government-sponsored report.
   Jack Munro, president of the International Woodworkers of America, said the workers, employees at four Doman Industries operations in the Nanaimo area, voted 92 per cent against accepting the Hodgson report.
  The company affected has a “handshake deal” with the union, unlike firms in the northern Interior which have signed contracts with the IWA.
  In the north, no firms with agreements have had walkouts, and the union is not recommending them, according to Jack Higgins of Local 1-424 of the IWA in Prince George.
   Munro said the union is still waiting for membership vote tallies from New Westminster and the Interior and likely won’t have overall provincial results until Wednesday or Thursday.
Arson suspect in custody here
   An 18-year-old female arson suspect is in police custody following a fire at the Bel Air Apartments on Upland Street Sunday morning.
   The fire department was called to a fire in a basement suite of the three-storey building shortly after 3 a.m. and with the help of tenants, was able to extinguish the blaze quickly.
   No one was injured in the blaze, which was confined to the one basement suite.
  The woman is expected to appear in Prince George provincial court today on a charge of arson.
                       Frank Buzzell, 18, one of many registered blind students throughout Prince George who attended a recent educational clinic sponsored by the Canadian New clinic National Institute for the Blind, gets a first-hand demonstration of what high-tech is doing for the visually impaired. Students learned the value of a host of electronic aids ranging from large print, closed-
 circuit televisons to talking clocks and a new item — a computer, word-processor and a calculator all rolled into one. A new sight enhancement clinic, which officially opened here during the weekend, will benefit all visually impaired persons in the northern half of the province.
Citizen photo by Brock Gable
LEADERSHIP CONFIRMED
Turner wins big vote
        Southam News OTTAWA — John Turner became the born-again leader of the Liberal party Sunday, riding a swell of popularity to a 76.3-percent vote of confidence from delegates to a Liberal party convention.
  The outcome, which shattered the Joe Clark benchmark of 66.9 er cent, was immediately hailed y Turner’s most ardent opponents, who promised their full co-operation and loyalty in the runup to the next election.
  “The delegates have spoken overwhelmingly for Mr. Turner and I expect ail will rally around him and support him,” said former finance minister Marc Lalonde.
   Those sentiments were echoed by Sen. Keith Davey, who wrapped a red and white Turner scarf around his neck and proclaimed “the fight is over.”
   “I said he needed a significant majority and I want to go on record right now that this is a significant majority,” he said.
   Jean Chretien, the emotional favorite who ran second to Turner in the party’s 1984 leadership race, was not at the convention site, but congratulated Turner by phone shortly after the result was announced.
   The only sour note was sounded by Chretien loyalist Jacques Corri-veau. who said he was willing to accept the vote but still had doubts about Turner’s winability.
   “This means the next election will be fought among three strong parties — and that may mean the
 "The tow truck will be an hour. Why don't we rotate the tires?"
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 Conservative party will win,” he said.
  For most delegates, however, and most of them were Turner supporters, it was a day for cheers, tears, and celebrations for a secret ballot vote that required them to decide if they wanted a leadership race.
   Of the 2,623 votes cast, 23.7 per cent said yes and 76.3 per cent said
 no, a decision that triggered an eruption of scarf-waving and jubilation inside the convention hall.
  The results of the vote were handed to Turner in a sealed envelope only moments before the announcement, after which he walked on stage.
  Though delegate opinion polls had indicated 75 to 80 per cent support for Turner, many loyalists were surprised — and relieved — by the strength of the vote.
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  MONTREAL (CP) — A juror in the first-degree murder trial of four Hell’s Angels stunned the court today by sending a note to the judge saying he had been bribed.
   “I have been bought — Hell’s Angels” one of the jurors wrote to Quebec Superior Court Justice Jean-Guy Boilard.
   Boislard then sent a guard to summon the juror who agreed to
 to the judge if reporters excluded from the court-
 talk were room.
   Boilard said he would decide after questioning the juror whether to proceed with 11 jurors or declare a mistrial.
   Robert Richard, Jacques Pelletier, Luc Michaud and Rejean Lessard each face five counts of first-degree murder in the March 1985 slayings.
    by HUBERT BEYER Special to The Citizen
  VICTORIA — Forest Minister Jack Kempf has ordered a full-scale inquiry into the Prince George Timber Supply Area.
   The inquiry will be conducted by Bill Ewing, president of Woodland Resource Services Ltd., behind closed doors at the Prince George Holiday Inn from Dec. 15 to Dec. 17.
  Kempf said the inquiry was prompted by concerns expressed by licencees about their future wood supply.
   The inquiry has a broad scope. It includes all matters related to the Timber Supply Area’s orderly development and good management and the practical and equitable allocation of licencee operating areas, the minister said.
   Details of the inquiry will include a review of all applications submitted for tree farm licences in the Prince George Timber Supply Area.
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Matinee idol mourned
  LOS ANGELES (AP) - Cary Grant, who died while touring in a one-man show, was a consummate actor who “gave new meaning to the word gentleman,” friends said of the urbane, witty leading man who never won an Oscar for a film.
  “Cary Grant was one of the great people in the movie business," said actor Jimmy Stewart. “He was a consummate actor and a complete professional insofar as his work was concerned.”
   Stewart, 78, worked with Grant and Katharine Hepburn in the 1940 classic, The Philadelphia Story.
  “He was the most handsome, witty, and stylish leading man both on and off the screen," said actress Eva Marie Saint, who starred with Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 thiller North By Northwest.
   Grant, 82, died of a stroke Saturday in Davenport, Iowa, where he was to appear in a program that included a talk and clips from
 Grant during movie years and at 80.
 some of his 72 movies. His fifth wife, Barbara, was at his side.
  The body was flown Sunday to Los Angeles. Grant’s lawyer, Stanley Fox, said no funeral will be held.
   “His life was lived with consummate grace,” said actor Charlton Heston. “He gave new meaning to the word gentleman at a time when that word was out of fashion.”
   The name Cary Grant was one of the biggest in movie history, but his only Academy Award came
 four years after his last film — a 1970 honorary Oscar for “his unique mastery of the art of screen acting.”
   Grant’s bearing suggested aristocracy, but his father was a pres-ser in an English garment factory. He was the idol of millions of women around the world, but his private life was often troubled.
   “I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be, and I finally became that person,” Grant once said.
   It was a successful relationship that began in 1932 and filled movie screens until 1966 and his last film, Walk, Don’t Run.
   Grant was paired with Katharine Hepburn, Myrna Loy, Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. It was to him Mae West tendered the most famous, and frequently misquoted, proposition in movie history: “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?”
   He was born Archibald Leach on Jan. 18, 1904, in Bristol, England.
By PETER CALAMAI Southam News
  OTTAWA — Tough new laws against drunkenness, terrorism, endangering life and vandalism outweigh any softness in the first instalment of a proposed new Criminal Code being presented to Parliament Wednesday, according to the top federal law reformer.
   Mr. Justice Allen Linden says the proposed code also narrows the categories of first-degree murder, easing any later return to the death penalty. Yet murdering a policeman would not automatically rate as first degree under the new categories.
   “If Parliament wants capital punishment, we’re getting ready to single out the most dreadful of the killers,” said Linden, president of the federal Law Reform Commission which has prepared the proposals.
    Linden confirmed in a lengthy interview that the new code would abolish the existing minimum 10 years in jail for all murders that aren’t first degree. Instead judges would decide the appropriate sentence depending on individual circumstances, he said.
   Removing the minimum murder term is one of the few liberal-leaning reforms to survive what the commission views as a marked shift in public mood towards law-and-order since the overhaul of the Criminal Code began in 1979.
   “We’ve got the wind,” said Linden. “Some of the earlier drafts were softer. We weren’t even going to have any first-degree murder ai all at one time.”
   The commission, an independent five-member advisory body that reports to Parliament, also scrapped an earlier draft proposal that anyone committing a crime while drunk receive no more than half the sentence of a sober offender.
   Outcry from police and lawyers over past weeks forced the commission to retreat,- leaving the full range of regular penalties for the new category of “crime while intoxicated.”
   This drunkenness provision is tougher than current court rulings which let many law breakers get off if they were too drunk to form the specific intent necessary to consciously commit crimes such as theft. Drunkenness isn’t currently accepted as an excuse for assault or manslaughter.
   “If your body does things which would be a crime, you don’t walk out the door, even though your mind wasn’t guilty,” says Linden. Because there wouldn’t be any benefit in proving drunkenness, the judge predicts there will be more guilty pleas.
   The proposals being tabled Wednesday by Justice Minister Ray Hnatyshyn are the first in four instalments of a complete overhaul of Canada’s criminal laws which date back to an 1892 code adapted from a British judge.
   Recommendations about sentencing are expected next month from a special commission after a two-and-one-half-year study. In the spring, the Law Reform Commission plans to present the other half of the new Criminal Code. The final instalment, due in the fall, deals with criminal procedure such as the powers of arrest.
   But the law reformers are holding back any recommendations about changing the abortion law until a decision from the Supreme Court of Canada the appeal by Dr. Henry Morgentaler. Other new Criminal Code amendments on child pornography, now before a Commons committee, won’t be held up for the wider overhaul.
.. .and in tomorrow's Citizen...
   Area children with talent for ballet will have a chance to audition for the National Ballet School Tomorrow, you will read how, for the first time, our young dancers can audition in their own hometown.
   Also planned:
  ■ Full coverage of the NFL game between New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers.
Tougher Criminal Code urged
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