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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1986
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Entertainment
Native art gets a boost
by BEV CHRISTENSEN Staff reporter
Prospects for the sale of native Indian art from central B.C. received a shot in the arm today with the official opening of the Prince George Native Art Gallery.
“We think people shouldn’t have to send to Japan and Taiwan to get replicas of Indian art when they can get originals right here,” says master carver Randy Adams, one of the people behind establishing the gallery.
Further impetus for the gallery came from the more than 500 people who enquired about where to buy authentic local native Indian art at the Native Friendship Centre and the tourist booth this summer.
The gallery, which features native Indian art from the Coastal and Interior regions of the province, will serve as an outlet for the work of students enrolled in the recently-opened school of native art and a native art co-op which is being set up to supply quality Indian arts and crafts to outlets from Prince George to Prince Rupert and Juneau, Alaska, Adams said.
Some of the carved silver jewelry, wood carvings and silks-creen prints on display at the gallery are Adams’ work.
He also accepts commissions for one-of-a-kind carved silver and gold jewelry.
Other established Indian artists whose work can be found in the small gallery in the Native Friendship Centre, 144 George St. include printmaker Robert Sebastian, Chilkat blanket maker Marion Hunt-Doig and birch-bark biter Angie Levac.
In the native art school upstairs, 15 students are busy carving single and multi-figure totem poles and ceremonial
Carver Angie Levac puts the finishing touches on a single-figure eagle totem which will be offered for sale in the new Native Arts Gallery. Citizen photo by Brock Gable
bowls and making small, cedar bendwood boxes which are replicas of the larger boxes in which Indians once stored their food.
The gallery also includes displays of porcupine quill jewelry, native designs painted on thin slices of moose horn, and beaded moccasins and bags.
Argillite carvings, birchbark and cedar baskets and fur art are expected to be added to the display before Jhe tourist season begins, Adams said.
Large cedar panels carved by
Bob Sebastian cover one wall of the section of the Native Friendship Centre now used for the art gallery. Another carving decorates the gallery door.
All the renovation work, including the cedar panelling was done by students enrolled in the native construction classes also offered there. Soon, the students will turn their attention to the nearby warehouse, which will be converted into a larger art gallery and warehouse space to store work for outlets throughout the Interior and Alaska.
LUMBER TARIFFS
Dispute may force recall of Commons
400 flee
Hawaii volcano
KALAPANA, Hawaii (AP) - A moving furnace of molten rock from Kilauea volcano slid relentlessly through a coastal subdivision Friday, destroying 13 homes and forcing about 400 people to evacuate.
“We just lost 10 homes,” said Harry Kim, Hawaii County Civil Defence administrator. “It’s just going right through the subdivision. A lot of other homes are in danger and we fear that more will be lost.”
A few hours later, three more homes in the 100-house subdivision were destroyed, bringing to 26 the number destroyed since the flow began reaching the Kalapana area Nov. 26.
The molten was moving forward in surges, covering 60 to 90 metres in an hour before slowing later Friday, Kim said.
Hawaii County Mayor Dante Carpenter estimated losses near $5 million.
The flows are being fed by a vent almost 13 kilometres away in Kilauea’s east rift zone.
Evacuation of 58 homes was ordered Thursday night as the 137-metre-wide leading edge of the flow crossed the two-lane Kalapana Highway and entered the Kalapana Gardens subdivision.
Oil prices to rise
GENEVA (AP) - All OPEC members except Iraq joined in an agreement early today to cut the cartel’s oil production by seven per cent and establish a unified price system .averaging $18 US a barrel, the OPEC president said.
The presider , Nigerian Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman, said the accord takes effect Jan. 1.
Iraq refused to sign the agreement, reached after 10 days of intense bargaining. Iraq’s enemy, Iran, said later it would search for legal grounds to either force Iraqi co-operation or suspend Iraq from the 13-country cartel.
Some leaders of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said they believe the plan would quickly dry up the world oil glut
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in Monday's Citizen...
The United States still gets most of Canada’s attention, but Canadian economic initiatives are swinging towards the Pacific Rim in a big way. An article in Monday’s Citizen looks at developments in the past year.
Also planned:
■ The new MBA program in Prince George.
■ A look at America’s most successful playwright.
and move the cartel closer to regaining control of petroleum prices.
The hard-won agreement, which had been jeopardized by the animosity between Iran and Iraq, is expected by industry analysts to boost world oil prices, at least in the short term. Oil prices currently range from $13 to $16 a barrel.
The immediate effect of the agreement on retail prices for gasoline and other oil products was hard to judge because some terms of the accord are to be phased in over the first two months of 1987.
Lukman said prices for six grades of OPEC crude would be fixed, starting Jan. 1, in a range of $16.27-$18.87 a barrel depending on the quality of the crudes.
by ALAN BASS
OTTAWA (CP) — MPs may be recalled from their Christmas holidays if legislation is needed to settle the Canada-U.S. lumber dispute, Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazankowski said Friday.
“That’s a possibility,” Mazankowski told reporters. “We’ve got to Dec. 30 to continue the negotiations. Progress is being made and they’re going very well.
“We’re prepared to take whatever legislative action is necessary.”
Mazankowski made the comment after a day filled with rumor and uncertainty that left furious opposition politicians accusing the government of humiliating Parliament by holding it hostage to the Americans.
Although Mazankowski said an early or temporary recall of Parliament was possible, it is not currently expected.
He also said he believes American negotiators would accept a Canadian government promise to pass any needed legislation after Parliament returns on Jan. 19.
“I’m sure that Canada’s word would be honored,” he said.
However, U.S. industry sources said they had misgivings about settling the lumber dispute on the strength of a Canadian promise.
The U.S. lumber industry has been insisting that Canada introduce legislation to impose an export tax on Canadian lumber.
The 15 per cent export tax offered by Canada is designed to replace a U.S. duty imposed in October, but U.S. trade authorities cannot drop the duty until the industry agrees to withdraw its complaint.
The government had hoped to introduce a motion empowering it to impose the tax before MPs left Ottawa on Friday for their four-week Christmas recess. It abandoned the idea at the last minute after negotiators in Washington failed to reach an agreement after four days of virtual around the clock bargaining.
Opposition MPs accused the government of delaying the end of the parliamentary day to gain more time to decide whether to introduce the legislation.
“What we’ve had here this afternoon and early evening is the House of Commons being held hostage to the United States,” Liberal Leader John Turner told reporters. “I find this a humiliating experience as a Canadian and as a Member of Parliament."
Some opposition MPs delayed their journey home because the government said a motion might be coming. Ironically, when Parliament was finally recessed, Trade Minister Pat Carney was on her way home to Vancouver.
TAX EVADER FINED
Enrico Massini, 60, of Prince George was fined $14,000 after pleading guilty Friday in provincial court to charges of income tax evasion.
Judge George Stewart ordered Massini to serve 60 days in jail if the fine is not paid.
Court learned that between 1978 and 1981, Massini failed to report rental income of $99,734.21 and during the same period overclaimed $23,198 in expenses related to the properties involved.
Revenue Canada claimed he owed $23,373.65 in federal tax.
Court was told Massini has paid approximately $29,000 relating to federal and provincial tax, penalties and interest on the unreported income.
SPACE STATION
U.S. seeks okay for military jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon wants the United States’ Canadian, European and Japanese partners in the proposed space station to allow possible Defence Department research, after years of insisting that it saw no military uses for the project.
Defence Department officials say no real reversal in policy is involved, even though in recent years U.S. negotiators have played down military uses and characterized the space station as a research laboratory for government and industry.
“What has changed is that NASA was about to step out on some agreement with the European Space Agency and the Canadians that would have precluded the Department of Defence and SDI from performing experiments on the space station,” said one Defence Department official, who asked not to be identified.
The strategic defence initiative, or SDI, is the name for President Ronald Reagan’s proposal to construct an anti-missile defence system using advanced systems such as space-based lasers.
In appearances before space committees of Congress, Pentagon officials including Air Force Secretary Edward Aldridge have said they had no projects in mind for the $8 billion US space station, which is to be put into space by the mid-1990s. No space station funds appropriated to date have come out of the Pentagon budget.
But a Defence Department official, who declined to be identified,
said, “We were told throughout that NASA and other U.S. government representatives impressed upon our allies that the option for our (military) use was being preserved.”
The administration official said he is not aware of any response from the Europeans, who planned to add a $2-billion facility to the station, or the Japanese, who had talked about a $l-billion module, or from the Canadians.
Reagan asks for 50 more MX missiles
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Ronald Reagan, moving to further modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal, decided Friday to step up work on a small, single-warhead missile and to ask Congress for 50 more 10-warhead MX missiles.
A written White House statement and Pentagon sources said the small missile, nicknamed the Mid-getman, would be mounted on mobile launchers, either at existing missile bases or “in random movement.”
Air Force Brig.-Gen. Charles May, a top official in the modernization program, told Pentagon reporters that the Reagan administration intended to ask Congress for another 50 MX intercontinental ballistic missiles and up to 500 of the smaller Midgetman weapons.
'DOESN'T FLATTER GOVERNMENT'
CART report could remain secret
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by MALCOLM CURTIS Staff reporter
A consultant’s report on Prince George’s beleaguered Centre for Advanced Resource Technologies likely won’t be made public because it does not flatter the B.C. government, says Bruce Strachan, Prince George-South MLA and inter-governmental relations minister.
The Woods Gordon report recommends that CART’s board be revamped with a detailed research plan in place by Feb. 15 before governments spend more money on the high-technology centre STRACHAN
CART offers instruction, and computer-designed manufacturing technology to mining and forestry industries.
Strachan told The Citizen Friday it would be up to the cabinet to make the report public, but it would not be in the government’s
interest to do so “because some of the information in it is not flattering.”
Strachan also said the eight-week deadline given to CART to find a new president is not “hard and fast” given the realities of corporate head-hunting.
Provided CART has a “process” in place to find a new president with a science and business background, the province would continue to bankroll the centre after Feb. 15 with help from the National Research Council, he said.
The NRC, a federal body funded by the science ministry, is lending adviser Dr. Mike Watson to advise CART over the next few weeks. Strachan said.
Watson has also done a report on the centre but his report has not been made public and calls placed to his Ottawa office by The Citizen were not returned.
CART has been threatened with extinction after a year of multimillion dollar promises from Frank Oberle, federal science minister and Prince George-Peace River MP.
The promised grants were sup-
posed to come from the Economic Region Development Agreement (ERDA), a joint provincial-federal funding package already agreed to.
The centre was given a brief new lease on life this week by the provincial cabinet, but many questions about the centre remain unanswered.
The centre, owned by a private non-profit company, was spun off from the College of New Caledonia after it received computer equipment from the college.
It continues to provide instruction to college students on a contract basis. But it owes the college over $300,000.
Strachan said he did not know how this debt was going to be paid off, but this will also have to be resolved by Feb. 15.
The MLA could not say how much money the B.C. government is prepared to put into CART if the centre does meet the goals set by the province.
Strachan said he didn’t know what provincial program would be tapped and whether ERDA funds are still involved. He said B.C.’s economic development ministry.
under Grace McCarthy, and the NRC would be involved.
And the MLA also admitted he didn’t know much about CART’s proposed multi-million dollar projects, with companies like Spar Aerospace and Inco. which were expected to be announced by Oberle last fall.
Strachan confirmed that Kelowna businessmen have approached CART about buying computer equipment “but nothing like that will happen until we’ve given (CART) the best shot here in Prince George.”
He said one past criticism of CART is that it did not blow its horn enough.
The centre could have done with better public relations to get the “good news” out, said Strachan.
As an example, he said CART had provided help to a local consulting engineer who did highly technical work related to the paving of a new runway at Victoria’s airport.
“That’s the sort of good news we should be hearing about but we didn’t.”