A2.. CASTLEGAR NEWS, February 10, 1982 - ~Crime will jump | VANCOUVER (CP))—" B.C. faces millions of dollars In increased costs, twice as . many juvenile delinquents’ and more crime if Ottawa raises the age of majority to - 18 from 17, B.C, corrections officials and prosecutors said Tuesday. They were reacting to ‘Solicitor General. Robert charged with murder:—\are Kaplan's plan to make 18 the dealth’ with bythe ‘Suvenite uniform age for’ becoming corrections system until thelr. officially adult across Can- . 17th. In ada. It means a youth in. and Quebec the age is 18 and trouble with the law will be. elsewhere in Canada it is 16, dealt with in juvenile court Adding another year. will until his or her 18th birthday. mean double the number of In B.C. and Newfoundland ‘young criminals in already- such young w Peenie — even if overloaded B.C. juvenile cor- rection centres’ and extra’ costs topping $6 millions year, said Gordon Hogg, dir ector of Willingdon ‘Youth Correction Centre in Bur: naby.: He said most Willingdon ‘youths openly admit they will OF FISH over 50 varieties FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 West Coast Seafoods reach the age for adult court. Raising the age simply means they'll stay criminals a year longer. “Even to. the hardened juvenile criminal, adult court is very awesome,”. said Gail "Weddell, a family court pros- * ecutor. “Most kids smarts up at. age 17.” * NEW. ‘LEGISLATION Ottawa lawyers have been R.W. KHADIKIN: FORMERLY OF give up crime when they | this’ Parliament.” The’ act. would replace { Age tobel8 | OTTAWA’ (CP), — Proposed | federal legislation on youths in trouble with the law. will be amendod to, apply ‘to gil persons under 18, Solicitor General ‘Robert Kaplan Tuesday. Current provisions of the bill and of ‘oxisting juvenile delinquent laws allow the age to vary from province to province,. but’ Kaplan told: the. Commons justice committee the new constitution will require young people be treated equally throughout Canada. Manitoba and Quebec say youths can be’ treated as juveniles — rather than under more severe legislation affecting adults — until 18. But ‘British Columbia and ‘Newfoundland set the upper limit at under 17 and the’ other provinces and two territories make it’ under 16. Kaplan conceded the flexible maximum age was the most widely-criticized aspect’ of- his proposed Young Offenders Act which he says “may be the major Felorne of Delinquents Act. It raises to 12, from seven the age at which’ persons can be charged with criminal offences, stresses’ alternative means of punishment and for the first time gives youths the right to'a‘lawyer. Both Svend Robinson, the New ‘and Allan Lawrence, Progressive the” Solicitor,” “General's .Department, _ welcomed the the ‘T4-year-old WS avenile jemocrat justice critic, mnservative critic for _ to build of a uniform age. 90? : ~-/ But they fear the shift of 16 and 17-year-olds from the ‘adult to juvenile justice systems will increase pressure on the already crowded juvenile’court facilities and force the» new — ~ Olson due to transfer VANCOUVER - ert Olson. could be trans- ferred toa. federal peniten- tlary as early ‘as next week —oven though the appeal he has filed could take months to complete. t Oleon automatically comes into federal custody (CP) — Mass murderer Clifford Rob- Sunday at the expiration of 3a the 80-day period for filing'an ‘jeg appeal, the Correctional Ser- vice of Canada sald Tuesday. Olson was sentented Jan. 14 to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges ‘of first-degree ‘murder; in be deaths of 11 youngsters, A B.C. Supreme Court judge sentenced Olson ‘to 25 years in prison with a recommen- dation he never: be granted parole. Olson has been lodged since then at Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre _ at Oakalla in ‘the, Vancouver — iburb of Burnaby, ‘Olson: will: probably be transferred from Oakalla to a maximum-security “ peniten- tiary: ‘in. either. Ontario. or - drafting . new - legislati A replace the Ta-year-old Juv- enile Deliquency Act, which allows the age of majority before the law to vary. from province to province. ‘They. » STEWART, WARD & SCHLOSSER Kelowna B.C. WISHES TO ANNOUNCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF - HIS LAW PRACTICE AT 640 Baker. St., Nelson Ph. 352-6418 say under the new consti- tution uniformity. is essential. ‘Peter Whelan, chairman of B.C.’s youth offenders act’ committee and the attorney general's program analyst for youth: services, said’ B.C; the le of uni- without any” CHURCH PROJECT continued from page Al ing ‘to: mult family. residen- The bylaw now, goes to the ext: council,’ meeting for’ adoption.;:, However; at: the. public ¢ hearing. Price et the council formity but not at age 18. Kaplan, who says the pro- vinces will be given three years to make the change, “ANNOUNCEMENT it’s the age when most indi- viduals reach maturity. - ; Zuckerberg _ Island to be: historical site “By CasNows Staff Castle council said he picked age 18 because. noted their ‘opposition to the rezoning. . One man told couneil the townhouse development will” be the first step to paving the . way for more multi-family developments in‘ the dingle-. family. zoned area. aes “We'll become the miinor- ity,” he said. He asked if council looked ata similar development that would fit into the current single’ family zoning regu- lation. Tuesday it intends to’ up- and make it an historical site.. mittee:.chairman ‘Ald. Carl. Henne ‘said council ‘recently approached the — provincial government for financial as- sistarice and was told in a Jan. 26 letter that the city’s for a grant for the island is under consideration: Provincial officials also said: an announcement of grants that will be awarded this year under the regional Darrel Kues Liconsed Mechanic - Plaza Texaco is pl d to that Darrell Kues, formerly of Junction “ Shell, has joined their staff at the Texaco ; Service Station. peerelh would like to invite ‘his fishes and former customers to visit him at i Plaza Texaco for their vehicle main- a aenE AL bettas ». tenance and repairs. shortly: & _ The city purchased Zucker- berg’s Island some time ago with the intent-of making it an historical site. Henne: added that the Eiri Rotary Club has DARRELL WILL BE ON DUTY Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. PLAZA TEXACO. , Parks,and Recreation com-'” D a woman said the ‘area neighbors! should. grade . Zuckerberg’s _ Island hye beet ¢ been better informed.” < body really knew what? to ie ‘she paid, “It should’ have been more stressed.” *' However, Mayor Audrey Moore pointed out that the public heariig was in fact the . second. — the church was listen to any more public asked to return with changes input after the public hear. to its original plans pre-'. ing.’ sented in a November public Embree ‘said: ‘after that hearing. after two public) hearings and ‘As well, Moore sald the . aletter toeach of the families public: hearing was adver- in the area, he finds it diffi- Pala. Len Embree pointed out that nearly 20 local resi- dents turned out for the first public hearing and suggested changes to the plans. _ Some changes made were to meet the concerns ex- . pressed at'that first hearing, he explained. Embree added that letters | were sent to 46 ‘families living within 200 feet of the project, is ‘ing them of een in the local news- cult’ to see ‘how residents weren't “fully informed of the - : development.” Changes to the. origins! proposal include: . @ The number of town- house units were scaled down from 40 to 34, @ The children’s play area’ was relocated, © Senior.citizen units were’ -not restricted to ascertain area of the development. Yards for each unit were from’ adjoini the public hearing." + Everyone in the commun.” ity in that area was notified more than was necessary un- der the; bylaw, he said. ‘When.the: :woman: sugges: » formed “Castle _, properties. © The number of parking stalls were reduced. The housing’ project is sponsored by the newly- ted she could con families to: gauge their opin-- ion on the project, Moore pointed out ‘that under the Municipal: Act council cannot Fare increased to follow collapse MUNICH (REUTER) — British Airways official said Tuesday that the collapse of Laker Airways is expected to result in ‘a '20-per-cent in- crease in fares between Eur- ope and North Anierica this year. * Richard Twomey, manager. of indi itis to put i in some money vee Sto try, to préserve (the island).”. charac R.S.P At the Castlealrd Plaza 365-5573 “FIRST-RATE RATES” *“NO FEES”'*. Tebeneha ofa fa Nek ° RSP: jebenefit of a"No-Fees” RSP at our & Rate Plan. Soif ‘your present RSP to a C plan now and save. our Deposit Plant *“TWO EXCELLENT PLANS”* | “DEADLINE MARCH 1ST” CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE fear laat aa *t Early cancellation charge of $25.00 if clased within one year.

cause of that I would ask that icits and persistently high in- no further contribution’ be terest rates, “Lam convinced that our policies, now that they are in” ANDERSON is the Century 21 Big Rock Realty 0 981) Ltd. is pleased to announce that MARY. WADE January, 1982 Corporate Listing Award. place, are the appropriate - Fesponse to our current dif- fieulties,”. Reagan . sald sa statement accompanying the report prepared by his Coun- eil of Economic Advisers. - ahead before the country reaps the benefits of per- manently lower inflation. Acknowledging a “short- lived trade-off between un- employment andthe rate of - inflation,” the report said: “This means that. policies de- signed to reduce inflation significantly will Semporerily “threat, bribe and influence” . caused him to give them information on tho location of seven human bodies and four already recovered bodies, Olson also claims he waa denied’ access ‘to‘his’ lawyer and was not properly, tested by psychiatrists... A tribunal of three appeals court justices will decide if oe has the basis: for an peal. *Pniversity of B.C. ‘profes sor Frank Maczko said Mon- day there are only two.spoci- fic instances that will cause a guilty plea to be overthrown — that he was forced to plead guilty against his will, or that he didn’t understand the na- + ture of the plea or, the pro- cess. Cuts Olson’s appeal. does - not claim either’ that .he was foreed against his will’ to plead guilty or that he was maisled. His lawyer Robert Shantz has said he won't handle Olson's appeal. Western assault ‘blocked ' MADRID (CP) — East bloe stalling ‘tactics at the Bur- opean: Security Conference have cut ‘short a western | assault on the Polish military ° lekegver opened by Canadian Affairs Ye The “vowed to continue their as- sault when the. session re- sumes Friday. The soviet-backed blocking operation began after Mac- Guigan, followed by U.S. | State Secretary Alexander Haig and four other western foreign ministers, Tuesday condernned © martiat law in Poland. and accused the Kremlin of: direct involve- ment, » The conference lasted 10 over points..of order ina pro- cedural battle that started in the afternoon. MacGuigan, first of the western representatives to spesk, along with Haig and: the foreign ministers of Bel- gium, West Germany, Italy and host Spain, assailed Po- land’s - martial law «crack: | down. The procedural ‘wrangle arose” largely from: an ad- vance decision that Poland would be in the chair when the $5-country conference resumed Tuesday after a two-month break. Under standing rules, the 16-month conference is pow- erless to act, even on proce- dural issues, unless its: de- cisions are unanimous. Leonid Tlyichov, Soviet deputy foreign minister, withheld the consensus needed for French External Affairs Minister Claude Cheysson and other Western ministers to address the con- ference. E The fight ended increase | Feduce output growth.” The president's economic. forecast predicts 1982. will witness the highest sustained rate of unemployment in the post-Second World War era, but the forecast also shows a steadily declining rate of in- flation from nearly 10 per cent last year to less than five per cent by 1984. 10-25% recipient of the Castlegar Plywood & Baildiag Supplies ack . 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How sad that the ‘Empire Builders’ can't see to expand the facilities that the district the facility is built, there will always be three-quarters of the district that, will require transportation to redch the libr le, at th . side there is the upset tax-* mary. Bor aarp, oie present “proposed: site, Castlegar South, the major. ity of population in Areas ‘T’ and ‘J’ will,require transpor- tation, and ‘chances are, that most of North Castlegar will use with the already has, with the economy in its ‘present state. Why is it prohibited to ex- pand the reading material at Selkirk College and ‘cater to the older students and citi- zens? After all, we are all paying taxes on that facility now. If the’ libary board wants a facility for a variety of projects for the younger. children,- use the present Castlegar Libary to cater to that ‘category of readers. It doesn't matter where Location: Editor, Castlegar News: In regard to the article in the Feb. 7 issue.of this paper on last Thursday's Public Library Meeting. -'” In my opinion it seems that. the library board and chair- man | Roy, Ward are possessed with the idea of having their plaque on a new million dollar library, when ‘it seems as though no one knows where it will be located at this time — thus,’ making it much like handing them a blank cheque. Quote: board chairman Roy Ward looked at a 4,000 square foot building _ near. Super Valu to house the Kinnaird Branch — but that would cost $3,000 a month for exception of those that live within the ‘immediate sur- rounding Blocks. Speaking of Areas ‘I’ and ‘J’, all these taxpayers jare looking at paying for im- proved essential facilities of water and sewage in Area ‘J’ and fire protection in Area ‘T’, which will run into the hun- dreds of dollars added to their present taxes. While on ‘the subject of priorities, I'm curious as to who decides what the pri- orities are, In the last several dilemma rent,.or almost half the li- brary'’s total annual budget {end quote). Said building was offered through a real estate firm for much less than $3,000 a month rent, and for purchase ata reasonable price — “at a ‘completely renovated. price of less than half the cost of the proposed new library. The building also has two floors of 4,000 square feet each, making a total of 8,000 square feet, not one level as stated by chairman Roy Ward. The building itself is sitting on .69 acres, providing sufficient parking for both years, two surveys have shown that the taxpayers have put an aquatic center at the top of the list of priorities for their. community. Yet, after being voted‘down once, taxpayers are still footing the bill for a second referendum to vote whether or not to build a third library. I certainly encourage everyone té vote on Feb, 13 and vote for what your poc-- ket book allows. C.L. Schuepfer Robson_ Cost is exorbitant Editor, Castlegar News: As a concerned taxpayer,. ’ businessman, avid hockey fan and player I feel compelled to state my position regarding the library/old arena’ contro- versy. Fisstly, the old a arena: - I suggest that an’ inde- pendent study be carried out to arrive at a cost analysis to repair and refurnish the dressing rooms, concession upstairs area, installation of a dry floor and bleachers. It is obvious that the con- dition of the‘old arena would be in a dilapidated’ state considering the small amount of funds spent on the facility. 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